Map Vocabulary
The imaginary line of lattitude at 0 degrees that separates the Earth into North/South hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This map shows all of the features of the area including mountains, lakes, waterways, etc.
What is a physical map?
The sperical model of the Earth.
What is a Globe?
This circular diagram helps you understand where the directions are located on a map.
What is a Compass Rose?
The name of the job that you can have making maps.
What is a cartographer?
An angular measurement of a location's distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
This map shows all of borders and capitals of a particular state or country.
What is a Political Map
A specific area on Earth that has common characteristics.
What is a Region?
These are the four basic directions (N, S, W, E)
What are the cardinal directions?
The name of a job you can have studying the Earth's surface.
What is a geographer?
An angular measurement of a location's distance north or south of the Equator.
What is Latitude?
This map shows all of the resources available, such as lumber, dairy farms, oil, coal.
What is a Resource Map?
The study of the Earth's surface.
What is Geography?
The four points located halfway between the cardinal directions.
What are the Intermediate Directions?
The number of colonies in the New World during 1776.
What is 13?
The description of a place's position in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
A map that is specialized to show one particular thing, such as time zones, favorite sodas, preferred desserts, etc.
What is a Thematic Map?
The line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England and is at 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The names of the four cardinal directions.
What are North, South, East, and West?
The direction you should travel when you leave Elizabethtown and head to Louisville.
What is North?
Precise and unchanging set of geographic coordinates of a point.
What is Absolute Location?
This map shows how steep or flat the land is in a particular area.
What is a Topographic Map?
This is the first thing you should look for when examining a map.
What is the Map Title?
The names of the four intermediate directions.
What are northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest?
The direction you should travel when you leave Elizabethtown and head toward Bowling Green.