Compass Rose/Continents
The number of continents on the globe.
What are seven?
Tells you the purpose of a map
What is a title?
A map that shows countries, states, cities, and capitals.
What is a political map?
Lines that measure north and south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
Another name for this line is parallel.
What is latitude?
The number of oceans on the globe.
What are 5 oceans?
Shows you what images on a map mean.
What are symbols?
A map that shows features of the Earth such as mountains, rivers, oceans, and forests.
What is a physical map?
Lines that measure east and west on the globe.
What are lines of longitude?
These lines run from south pole to north pole.
What are lines of longitude?
The 2 hemispheres where North America is located.
What is western and northern hemisphere?
A directional arrow that shows cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
a map that shows how something is spread out. (Ex. population density map)
What is a distribution map?
0 degrees latitude
Another name for lines of longitude.
What are meridians?
North, South, East, and West are this type of directions.
What are cardinal directions?
Distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
A map that is divided into squares identified by letters and numbers.
What is a grid map?
0 degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
My coordinates are (0o,60oW). 00 would be which line?
What is equator?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest are this type of directions.
What are intermediate directions?
A smaller map that shows a larger area of land around the map.
What is an inset map?
Jenn is looking at a rainfall map of Europe.
What is a distribution map?
Half the earth
What is the hemisphere?
Tina is located at the absolute location of 60o N, 160oW. The 2 hemispheres she is located in.
What is Nothern and Western hemisphere?