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vocabulary
Parts of a map
Continents
Compass Rose
All Mixed up
100
One of the seven large masses on earth
What is a continent?
100
An image on a map that means something.
What is a symbol?
100
What continent do we live in?
What is North America?
100
What are the four cardinal directions?
What is north, east, south, west?
100
An imaginary line that circles the globe dividing the earth into two halves called hemispheres.
What is an equator?
200
A large body of water on Earth.
What is an ocean?
200
Explains what the symbols mean that are used on the map.
What is a map key?
200
The continent that is south of the continent that we live on.
What is South America?
200
The intermediate directions.
What is northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest?
200
The study of the surface of the earth.
What is geography?
300
A small representation of the Earth that is shaped like a sphere.
What is a globe?
300
Tells what the map covers and shows.
What is map title?
300
The continent to the east of Europe.
What is Asia?
300
The direction opposite of east?
What is west?
300
Imaginary lines that run east to west and show the Equator.
What is latitude?
400
Half the Earth's surface (northern, southern, eastern, & western)
What is a hemisphere?
400
A flat representation of the earth.
What is a map?
400
The continent that is the coldest.
What is Antarctica?
400
The opposite direction of southeast.
What is northwest?
400
Imaginary lines on a globe that run north and south and show the distance of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
500
The lines of longitude that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is Prime Meridian?
500
A part of a map that compares distance on the map to distance in the real world.
What is a map scale?
500
The continent that is also a country and Alexander wanted to go there.
What is Australia?
500
The opposite direction of northeast.
What is southwest?
500
Name the four oceans. Which ocean do we swim in?
What is the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Arctic Ocean? Atlantic Ocean