Map Skills
Map Skills Cont.
Globe Skills
Globe & Continent
Continents
100
This tells you what the map is about.
What is the title?
100
A part of the map that tells us how distances on the map relate to actual distances on Earth.
What is map scale?
100
This is known as the top half of the globe.
What is the northern hemisphere?
100
These are the five oceans that are located on the globe.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
100
What continent do we live on?
What is North America?
200
Why is the map scale important?
A map scale tells us how distances on the map relate to actual distances on Earth.
200
By looking at this map, where would I look to see how the Local Roads are represented? How are they represented on this map?
What is using the legend? blue lines represent the local roads
200
The imaginary lines on the map we can use to find the exact or absolute location on earth.
What is latitude and longitude?
200
These are the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
200
What countries border the United States. Tell me which is north and which is south.
Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.
300
A tool on a map that shows the cardinal directions: North, East, South, and West.
What is a compass rose?
300
Using a compass rose, what cardinal direction would you go from Turkey to Syria?
What is south?
300
The middle line on a globe that runs east to west dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300
The lines that run east to west and measure how far north or south a place is from the Equator (0°).
What is Latitude?
300
What is the smallest continent?
What is Australia?
400
This is a visual explanation of the symbols used on the map
What is a legend / key?
400
True or False: A map of the earth has to be shown in its normal format. A map cannot change.
False. A map can change orientations the world is not flat it is a sphere.
400
Lines that run north to south and measure how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian (0°).
What is Longitude?
400
The middle line on a globe that run from the north to south pole creating the east and west hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
400
Greenland is unique in the fact that physically it is considered to be a part of ___________, but culturally and politically it is apart of__________.
North America, Europe
500
What cardinal direction is the United States to Europe?
What is Northeast?
500
A map scale shows that 2 inches on the map equals 100 miles in real life. If I measured the distance between to cities on my paper map and it was 6 inches apart, what is the distance in real life (miles)?
What is 300 miles?
500
The two lines that divide the earth into 4 hemispheres.
What are the equator and prime meridian?
500
How many countries make up our continent?
What is 23 countries?
500
Name for the largest continental area on Earth, comprising two continents.
What is Eurasia?