Map Features
This shows the four cardinal directions.
What is the compass rose?
This type of map shows elevation.
What is a topographic map?
How far something is from something else.
What is distance?
These lines run north and south and measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
These are the four time zones in the continental United States.
What are Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern?
This map feature explains what the symbols on the map mean.
What is the map key?
This type of map shows geographical features such as rivers, mountains, and valleys.
What are physical maps?
An electronic device that uses radio waves from satellites to give precise information about location and direction.
What is a GPS (Global Positioning System)?
These lines run east and west and measure distance north and south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
These set of numbers tell the exact latitude and longitude of a place.
What are coordinates?
This map feature tells distance on a map and distance in real life.
What is the map scale?
This type of map shows state and country boundaries, and state and country capitals.
What is a political map?
A drawing or picture of a specific place on Earth's surface that shows different features.
What is a map?
This line evenly divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Low points of land.
What are depressions?
Every map should have this feature to tell what the map shows.
What is a map title?
This type of map would be useful when traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
What is a road map?
Where a person or object is facing or moving toward.
What is direction?
This line marks the beginning of a new day.
What is the International Date Line?
High points of land.
What is elevation?
These lines show elevation on a topographic map. The closer they are the steeper the slope, the farther they are the more gradual the slope.
What are contour lines?
This spherical type of map shows the whole earth in correct proportions.
What is a globe?
The small line after 24. 300 24'
What is minutes?
What is Greenwich, England?
Temperature close to this important line of the globe is hot year-round.
What is the equator?