Mapping Skills 1
This is what 0 degrees longitude is called.
What is the Prime Meridian?
If I traveled directly south from Africa, I would land on this continent.
What is Antarctica?
The two hemispheres in which the United States is located.
What is Northern and Western?
Latitude and Longitude is measured with these.
What is degrees?
North, South, East, West are these directions.
What is cardinal directions?
The direction lines of longitude run.
What is North and South?
Name the 5 oceans.
What are the Arctic, Southern, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific?
The part of a map that tells the distance.
What is the map scale?
What is five?
This symbol on a map which shows the directions.
What is a compass rose?
Location of one place in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
The equator divides the Earth into these two parts.
What are the northern and southern hemispheres?
A large body of land.
What is a continent?
The number of continents.
What is seven?
What are intermediate directions?
The major line of longitude at 0 degrees longitude.
What is Prime Meridian?
A map key tells what these items represent.
What is symbols?
A large body of water.
What is an ocean?
The only continent without any countries.
What is Antarctica?
The exact location of a place.
What is absolute location?
Imaginary lines on the globe that are flat and travel east and west.
What is latitude?
A major line of latitude at 0 degrees latitude.
What is equator?
The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into these two hemispheres.
What is Eastern and Western.
The name of a half-sphere
What is hemisphere?
This is what we call a map that is spherical.
What is a globe?