Parts of a Map
The symbol that shows directions on a map.
What is compass rose?
The imaginary line that passes through the center of Earth (between the North and South Poles) on which the Earth rotates.
What is the axis?
The hemisphere.
What is half of the Earth?
What is a sphere?
The color green on a globe represents
What is land?
The list that explains the symbols on a map.
What is legend (key)?
The imaginary line that runs around the center of Earth (halfway between the North and South Poles) at zero degrees latitude.
What is equator?
The North Pole is located in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
The more accurate way to show the earth.
What is a globe?
The Earth has this many continents.
What is seven?
The cardinal directions.
What is north, south, east, and west?
The line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The continent, North America, is located in these two hemispheres.
What is the Northern and Western Hemisphere?
The point south on Earth where the lines of longitude meet.
What is the South Pole?
The Earth rotates, or turns, on its axis this many times a day.
What is once a day?
The smaller map set within the border of a larger one.
What is inset map?
The point north on Earth where the lines of longitude meet.
What is the North Pole?
The line that divides the Earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
The line at which the equator is located at.
What is zero degrees latitude?
The continents of the Earth
What is North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe?
The name for northest, southeast, southwest, and northwest.
What is intermediate directions?
The imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole at zero degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
The continent that is located in all four hemispheres of the world.
What is Africa?
The line at which the prime meridian is located.
What is zero degrees longitude?
The largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?