Latitude and Longitude
Another name for 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
What are North, East, South, and West?
The number of continents we have on Earth
What is 7 continents?
This kind of map shows capitols, cities and boundaries
What is a political map?
The Earth spins of this
What is the Axis?
What is the prime meridian?
The four Intermediate directions
What are Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest.
The continent that we live in
What is North America?
This kind of map shows rivers, mountains and plateaus
What is a physical map?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water
What is a peninsula?
The set of numbers that show where lines of latitude and longitude meet are called
What are coordinates?
This state is East of Indiana
What is Ohio?
The 4 continents that start with the letter 'A'
What are Africa, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia?
Map symbols are shown in a box called this
What is the Legend?
One half of the Earth is called this
What is a hemisphere?
The equator splits the Earth into 2 hemispheres
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
This continent is South of North America
What is South America?
The number of Oceans we have on Earth
What is 4 oceans?
This is used to measure distance on a map
What is the scale?
A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the north and south poles
What are meridians?
The prime meridian splits Earth into these two hemispheres
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
This country is directly north of North America.
This country is directly south of North America.
What is Canada?
What is Mexico?
The name of Earth's 4 oceans
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian Oceans?
What is the compass rose?
These two states are not connected to the other 48 contiguous states
What are Hawaii and Alaska?