Vocabulary 1
the Compass
Miscellaneous
Maps
Vocabulary 3
100
A large body of Salt Water
What is an ocean?
100
A tool used to measure direction.
What is a compass?
100
The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic are...
What are oceans?
100
A map that shows you how you can travel from one place to another.
What is a transportation map?
100
One of the Earth's 7 large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200
Shows you what the symbols represent on a map.
What is map key?
200
North, South, East and West are...
What are Cardinal directions?
200
The study of the Earth is called...
What is Geography?
200
Anything that stands for something...
What is a symbol?
200
A small copy of the Earth.
What is a globe?
300
A small drawing on a map that shows direction.
What is a compass rose?
300
When you face north, this direction is to your right.
What is east?
300
Longitude line measure distance east and west of the ...
What is Prime Meridian?
300
A map that shows you landforms such as mountains, hills, rivers, plains, oceans, and lakes.
What is a physical map?
300
This word means Half.
What is hemi?
400
An imaginary line that separates the North and South Poles
What is an equator?
400
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest are....
What are intermediate directions?
400
We live in what two hemispheres...
What are the North and West Hemispheres?
400
A map that show information about past events.
What is historical map?
400
The relationship between the distance on a map and the real distance on Earth.
What is a scale?
500
Half a sphere.
What is a hemisphere?
500
When you face north, this direction is to your left.
What is west?
500
A continent that is located in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
500
A map that shows you states, countries, or cities.
What is a political map?
500
A small map or globe sent onto another map that shows you where the main map is set.
What is a locator?