Map Features
The 7 Continents
Locations on Map
Oceans
100
This is what the name of the map is.
What is a Map Title.
100
Two continents that are COMPLETELY on the Western Hemisphere.
What are North and South America ?
100
The precise point where a place is located on Earth usually located by where the latitude and longitude lines meet or by an exact addressif one is available.
What is Absolute Location.
100
What is the name of the ocean located between the United Stated and Europe/Africa?
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
200
A diagram on a map that shows directions such as north, south, east, and west.
What is the Compass Rose.
200
The continent that has parts in all 4 Hemispheres.
What is Africa?
200
Where a place is located in relation to another place.
What is Relative Location.
200
What is the name of the ocean located between the Antartica and Africa/South America?
What is the Southern Ocean.
300
Another name for map legend that is used to inform the viewer what the images on the map stand for.
What is the Map Key.
300
The continent that is on the Western, Eastern, and South Hemisphere.
What is Antartica?
300
Imaginary Meridian lines between the North and South poles that cross the equator at right angles.
What are Longitude Lines.
300
What is the name of the ocean located between the Africa, Asia, and, Australia?
What is the Indian Ocean.
400
An element of a map that shows how a unit of distance on the map (such as an inch) relates to actual distance on the surface of Earth
What is the Map Scale.
400
The name of the continent that is only on the South and Eastern Hemispheres.
What is Australia?
400
Imaginary Parallel lines around Earth that run horizontal to the equator.
What are Latitude Lines.
400
What is the name of the ocean located between the Greenland and Europe/Asia?
What is the Artic Ocean.
500
This is what happens to a landmasses or the oceans when the Earth is made into a flat map.
What is called Distortion.
500
These 2 continents are connected together and are mostly found on the North and Eastern Hemispheres.
What are Europe and Asia.
500
The line of latitude that circles Earth exactly midway between the North and South poles.
What is the Equator?
500
What is the name of the ocean located between the Americas and Asia? Itis typically on the edges of both sides of maps when the world is made flat.
What is the Pacific Ocean.