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Hemispheres
Latitude and Longitude
Parts of a Map
Types of Maps
Vocabulary
100
An imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
100
Lines that circle Earth in a north-south direction that are also called meridians.
What are lines of longitude?
100
This part of a map tells what it is about.
What is a map title?
100
A map that shows how humans have divided the Earth's surface.
What is a political map?
100
A design with four pointers that show north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
200
An imaginary line that divides Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
200
Lines that circle Earth in an east-west direction and are also called parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
200
These are lines, small drawings, or fields of color that stand for something else.
What are map symbols?
200
A map that shows the major landforms and water on an area of Earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
200
The four directions north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
300
A model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
300
Latitude and longitude lines are measured in units called these.
What are degrees?
300
This is a small box that lists each symbol and tells what it stands for.
What is a map key?
300
A map that shows the whole world's or any region's time zones.
What is a time zone map?
300
The directions northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest.
What are intermediate directions?
400
The line of longitude that is marked 0 degrees.
What is the prime meridian?
400
The North Pole is at this line of latitude.
What is 90 degrees north?
400
This is a small map in a box or a circle.
What is a locator?
400
A map that shows the height of land above sea level.
What is an elevation map?
400
A set of lines marked off in miles and kilometers.
What is a scale?
500
A location that the prime meridian passes through and extends from pole to pole.
What is Greenwich, England?
500
To the right of the prime meridian is this line of longitude.
What is 15 degrees east?
500
A small map in a box that is set inside a main map.
What is an inset?
500
A map that shows a region's weather over a long period of time and repeated year to year.
What is a climate map?
500
A special map that shows automobile routes between towns and cities for a region, county, state, or country.
What is a road map?