Directions
Latitude and
Longitude
Miscellaneous
All About Maps
Vocabulary
100

North, South East and West are these type of directions.

What are Cardinal directions?

100

Known as the main line of latitude.

What is the Equator?

100

A model of the earth.

What is ta globe?

100

The star stands for this on a map.

What is the capital?

100

A sphere-shaped model of the world.

What is the globe?

200

The four intermediate directions.

What are northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest?

200

These lines run from north to south.

What are lines of longitude? (or meridians)

200

Term that tells what a map is about.

What is the title?

200

The type of map you would use to find your route from Madisonville, Kentucky to Florida.

What is an interstate highway map?

200

Used to determine distance on a map.

What is the map scale?

300

The symbol on every map that shows directions.

What is the compass rose?

300

Another name for the Prime Meridian.

What is 0 degrees longitude?

300

The weather of a place over a long period of time.

What is climate?

300

A map that shows landforms and geographical features on the earth's surface.

What is a physical map?

300

Earth is divided into two half spheres called.

What is a hemisphere?

400

The equator cuts the globe into these two hemispheres.

What are northern and southern hemispheres?

400

Parallels is another name for these lines.

What are lines of latitude?

400

Another term for a map's key.

What is the legend?

400

A map that shows how humans have divided the earth's surface.

What is a political map?

400

Half of the earth south of the equator.

What is the southern hemisphere?

500

The imaginary line that cuts the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

Lines used to measure east and west on a map.

What are longitude lines?

500

The lines on a map represent these.

What are degrees?

500

The exact spot of a place or feature using degrees of longitude and latitude.


What is absolute location?

500

Using cardinal and intermediate directions to describe the location of a place in relationship to something else.

What is relative location?