Continents
Which continent is made of only one country?
Australia
What is the equator?
An imaginary horizontal line on the globe that divides the earth in half (northern and southern hemispheres)
What do you call the 7 large land areas on Earth?
What type of map is really a model of the earth?
A globe
Draw a compass rose with directions in the correct locations on the board
drawing
Which continent holds the countries of the United States and Canada?
North America
What is a hemisphere?
Half of a sphere, half of the globe
A picture that shows the location of something is called a _________.
map
What type of map shows symbols in a pattern of lines that cross to form squares?
Grid map
This shows the 4 main directions on a map.
Compass Rose
How many continents do we have on Earth?
7
Show the direction of latitude lines with your arms
horizontal arms
Why do maps include a key or legend?
To tell you what the symbols mean
Explain how to identify a particular location on a grid map
Go over and then go up--write down the letter and number
What are intermediate directions?
Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest
What is the largest continent, by size and population?
Asia
What do you call the lines that mark the globe from North to South?
longitude lines
What does location mean?
Where something is found
This type of map shows borders between states and countries.
Political map
The four main directions are called the _________.
Cardinal directions
North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, Antarctica, Asia
What imaginary line divides the earth in half from North to South?
The Prime Meridian
What do you call a drawing that stands for something real on a map?
A symbol
This type of map shows landforms such as mountains, rivers and plains.
Physical map
The directions in between the 4 cardinal directions are called the __________.
Intermediate directions