Map Vocabulary
shows landforms, bodies of water and other geographical features. Features shown include mountains, deserts and lowlands as well as lakes, rivers and oceans.
What is a physical map?
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport,
------- for a boundary, * for capital.
What are symbols?
How many oceans are there?
What are 5?
This shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
Another word for lines of latitude
What is parallels?
The most number of degrees a line of latitude can have
What is 90 degrees?
Is the most accurate map of Earth. It is shaped like a sphere, or ball
What is a Globe?
The countries near this ocean include Iraq, Iran, Madagascar, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are ordinal directions?
a place's position when compared to the locations of other places
What is relative location
0 degree line of latitude is known by this name--separates Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map. The ratio of the distance on a map to the actual distance of the ground
What is a scale?
The name of this ocean is found in the word Antarctica.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The name of the book that contains maps?
What is an Atlas?
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
The most number of degrees a line of longitude can have
What is 180 degreesa?
Key on a map that tells what symbols on the map are
What is the map legend?
This ocean is the on the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic?
Where is the Earth the widest?
What is the Equator?
A place's exact position on Earth, often based on its longitude and latitude
What is absolute location?
The main line of longitude is known as this---separates the Earth into eastern and western hemisheres
What is Prime Meridian?
One of the main landmasses of the globe. There are seven--Africa, Antartica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
What is a continent?
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These are the Cardinal Directions?
What is North, South, East, West?