Continents and Oceans
Types of Maps
Latitude
Longitude
Map Skills
100
This continent is located furthest south on a map.
What is Antarctica?
100
This type of map shows countries, cities, states, capitals and borders.
What is a political map?
100
This latitude line measures zero degrees.
What is the equator?
100
This longitude line measures zero degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
This measures distances on a map.
What is a map scale?
200
This continent is the only continent which is an island.
What is Australia?
200
This type of map shows a place the way it was mapped or looked like in the past.
What is a historical map?
200
These lines measure how far from the equator a location is in these two directions.
What are north and south?
200
The Prime Meridian divides the earth into these two hemispheres.
What are the eastern and western?
200
A circle showing the directions printed on a map or chart.
What is a compass rose?
300
This ocean is located on a typical map of the globe twice.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This type of map shows the way the land looks, lakes, mountains, oceans, etc.
What is a topographical map?
300
The equator divides the earth into these two hemispheres.
What are northern and southern?
300
Longitude lines connect these two poles.
What are the north and south poles?
300
This contains the information needed for the map to make sense.
What is a map key?
400
This ocean is the ocean you would be swimming in if you went to Hampton Beach.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
What is a topographical map?
400
One way to remember which way lines of latitude run is...
Latitude- "flat"itude or rungs on a ladder.
400
Invisible lines that measure how far in which two directions of the Prime Meridian a location is.
What are east and west?
400
A map uses these or colors to represent things.
What are symbols?
500
This continent is where Russia is located.
What is Asia?
500
What is a political map?
500
There are this many degrees both north and south of the equator.
What is 90?
500
There are this many degrees both east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is 180?
500
The earth is divided into these four hemispheres.
What are northern, southern, eastern and western?