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Latitude & Longitude
Map Skills Potpourri
Continents
100

This is the feature that tells us what direction something is.

What is a Compass Rose?

100
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
100
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
100

We live in this continent.

What is North America?
200

This feature tells us what map we are looking at.

What is a Map Title?

200
Directions that lines of latitude run
What are west to east?
200

These lines show the limits of the territory within a certain area; in football a player might be out of them.

What are boundaries?

200

These are the intermediate directions on the compass rose that help us when we are locating places on the continents.

What is Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest?

300

The box that tells us what each symbol means.

What is the key or legend?

300
The main line of latitude is known by this name.
What is the Equator?
300

This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.

What is a scale?

300

These are 4 of the 7 continents.

What are:

North America

South America

Europe

Asia

Africa

Autralia

Antarctica

400

The lines that run north and south but give us directions for east and west.

What are longitude lines?

400
Longitude lines run in these two directions?
What are north and south?
400
The key to understanding maps is to use this.
What is the legend?
400
This continent is also a country.
What is Australia?
500

These two lines sit at 0 degrees. One runs east and west and one runs north and south.

What is the equator and the Prime Meridian?

500

The main line of longitude is known as this.

What is Prime Meridian?

500

Someone who makes a map is known as this.

What is a cartographer?

500

This continent is also called the South Pole and is found in the southern hemisphere.

What is Antarctica?