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Vocabulary
Continents
Maps
Parts of a Map
Oceans,
Latitude, and Longitude
100
Imaginary lines that run north to south on the globe.
What are longitude lines or meridians?
100
The continent south of North America.
What is South America?
100
A type of map that shows information from the past.
What is a historical map?
100
The first thing you should read when looking at a map.
What is the title?
100
The ocean on the west coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
The word that means half a sphere.
What is hemisphere?
200
The "island" continent.
What is Australia?
200
This type of map shows information about man-made features such as cities, capitals, and state boundaries.
What is a political map?
200
A drawing on a map that shows direction.
What is a compass rose?
200
The ocean on the east coast of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
Imaginary line of latitude that divides the world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300
The continent east of Europe.
What is Asia?
300
A type of map that shows natural features, such as lakes, rivers, mountains, deserts, etc.
What is a physical map?
300
The part of the map that tells you what symbols stand for.
What is a map key?
300
The ocean directly east of Africa and south of Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
Imaginary lines that run east and west.
What are latitude lines or parallels?
400
The continent directly north of Africa.
What is Europe?
400
A type of map that shows changes in elevation using shading.
What is a relief map?
400
Used to show where the subject area on the main map is found.
What is a locator?
400
Lines of longitude meet at these.
What are the poles?
500
This tells you how much smaller the distance on a map is compared with the actual distance.
What is a map scale?
500
The continent on which you live.
What is North America?
500
A special purpose map that shows how a particular feature, such as population or rainfall, is spread over an area.
What is a distribution map?
500
The name for the "in between directions" on a compass rose.
What are the intermediate directions?
500
Line of latitude measure from 0 degrees to this.
What is 90 degrees?