Map Vocab
A drawing or picture of a specific place or area of Earth’s surface that shows different features.
What is a map?
If you want to know what certain symbols stand for on a map, you would check this.
What is the map key?
On a map or a globe, the lines that run from east to west are called this.
What are parallels of latitude?
A map which shows the natural features of a place, such as rivers, mountains, valleys and lakes.
What is a physical map?
The earth can be divided horizontally into these 2 hemispheres.
What are the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere?
An object or picture that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
On a map, this is the symbol with four arrows pointing in different directions (N,S,E,W).
What is a compass rose?
An imaginary line that is the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The height of a place is called this.
What is elevation?
The earth can be divided vertically into these 2 hemispheres.
What are the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere?
This tells us how far it is from one point to another.
What is distance?
A representation of Earth’s surface in the form of a sphere (ball).
What is a globe?
The lines that run from north to south on a map are called this.
What are meridians of longitude?
The 4 cardinal directions.
What are North, South, East and West?
On a map or a globe, the lines that run from east to west are called parallels of latitude, and they never do this.
What is meet?
This tells us where a person or object is facing or moving toward.
What is direction?
Either of two halves of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
A set of numbers and letters together that show you a position on a map.
What are coordinates?
The 4 intermediate directions.
What are Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest?
The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres and measures this many degrees longitude.
What is 0° longitude?
This can help you find the distances between places on a map. It looks like a ruler.
What is a map scale?
An imaginary line around the middle of Earth. It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0 degrees latitude. This line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The small circle in 20°N, 10’W stands for this.
What are degrees?
The 4 continental United States time zones.
What are Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern?
Meridians of longitude are vertical lines that meet here.
What is the North and South Poles?