Map Vocabulary 1
A round model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
The name of a map.
What is a map title?
This direction points up ^
What is North?
The sun sets in this direction.
What is the West?
A mountain or hill with a crater through which lava, rock or gas erupt.
What is a volcano?
A symbol that shows cardinal and intermediate directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
A drawing showing features of an area.
What is a map?
This direction points down.
What is South?
This type of map shows mountains, lakes, rivers, forest and National parks.
What is a Physical map?
A large body of salt water surrounding a continent.
What is the ocean?
A large body of freshwater surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
This imaginary line cuts the earth in half, separating the north and the south.
What is the equator?
In what direction is California from Ohio?
What is West?
This type of map shows highways, roads, cities and states.
What is a Political map?
A raised area of land; not as high as a mountain
What is a hill?
A list that explains the symbols on a map.
What is a map key/ legend?
What are the 7 continents?
Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, North America, South America and Europe.
What direction is Pennsylvania from Ohio?
What is East?
A form of measurement to calculate distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
What map shows the boundaries defining nations, countries, states, provinces and territories and the major cities that lie within them?
What is political map?
A picture that stands for something real; such as mountains, trees, parks or hospitals.
What is a map symbol?
The Largest Ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the East?
The Central Longitude line from which time zones are calculated.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The continent where we live.
What is North America?