Map Skills
This tells you what the map is about.
What is the title?
This is what you look at to find out what the symbols on a map stand for.
What is a map key or legend?
Name the seven continents.
NA, SA, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
This is known as the top half of the globe.
What is the northern hemisphere?
This map feature allows the map maker to shrink a larger area onto a smaller area.
What is a scale?
This type of map shows natural features and landforms of an area.
What is a physical map?
These are known as the top and bottom points on the globe.
What are the North and South Pole?
This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
These are pictures, lines, or dots that stand for something on the map.
What are symbols?
These are known as north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
This is the ocean near the South Pole.
What is Southern Ocean?
This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres?
What is the Prime Meridian?
These are known as northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Lat=flat
This body of water surrounds the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
These are the five oceans that are located on the globe.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?