Parts of Maps
Parts of Maps Continued
Different Types of Maps
Reading Maps
Timed Reading
100
North, South, East, and West are the names of these.
What are the Cardinal Directions?
100
This line goes across the Earth, like a belt, at 0°.
What is the Equator?
100
A Political map is a map separating these areas.
What are countries/states?
100
This ocean is the largest ocean on the planet.
What is the Pacific?
100
This continent can be found at 48°N, 100°W.
What is North America?
200
These lines lay flat on a map, reaching from side to side.
What are Lines of Latitude?
200
These lines run vertical along a map, measuring the degrees East and West.
What are Lines of Longitude?
200
This 3-D map is often used by scholars to work with an accurate representation of the world.
What is a globe?
200
There are 7 of these on any world map.
What are Continents?
200
This continent can be found at 43°N and 87°E.
What is Asia?
300
Maps typically have these on them, to tell the reader what each symbol means.
What are legends?
300
This part of the map tells you the relative distance on the map to the real world.
What is the scale?
300
This type of map shows the features of the Earth.
What is Geographic?
300
This ocean is the smallest in the world.
What is the Arctic?
300
This country can be found at 36°N, 104°E.
What is China?
400
This can be found on a map and shows all 8 directions.
What is a Compass Rose?
400
This is a special line on a world map, laying just South of 30°N.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
400
This type of map, typically used by hikers and surveyors, shows areas by elevation, rather than by country.
What is a Topographic map?
400
North America, Russia, Canada, and Europe are all located here.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
400
This country can be found at 10°S,50°W.
What is Brazil?
500
On a world map, this vertical line can be found at 0°.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This is a special line just North of 30°S on a map, indicating the bottom of the Earth's "belt".
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
List 3 examples of Geographic features.
Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Plains, Valleys, Hills, Trenches, Continents, Gulfs, Desert, etc.
500
The South Pole can be found here.
Where is Antartica?
500
This town can be found near 43°N, 80°W.
What is Ancaster?