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An imaginary line that runs north and south dividing the earth in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The number of time zones found in the United States.
A model of the earth.
Information that explains what each symbol on a map stands for.
What is a map key/legend?
A map that shows borders between states and countries. It is sometimes very colorful.
What is a political map?
A pointer on a map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
An imaginary line around the center of the earth halfway between the North Pole and South Pole. 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
A map that shows landforms and geographic features.
What is a physical Map?
A small map within a larger map that shows areas outside of or in greater detail than the larger map.
What is an inset map?
The Earth is divided into this many hemispheres.
What is 24?
A map showing the worlds or any countries time zones.
What is a time zone map?
This is the climate for Iowa.
What is cool and wet?
Lines are parallel and will never touch?
What are latitude lines?
What are 2 parts of a climate?
What are temperature and precipitation?
Meridians that are closest together at the North and South Pole and are farthest apart at the Equator. They extend from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are longitude lines?
A tool that helps you measure distances on a map.
Height of land above sea level. This map uses colors to show different elevations across an area.
The number of time zones in the world.
What is 24?
A map that shows routes between towns and cities in a state or country.
What is a road map?
Half a sphere or globe.
What is a hemisphere?
These 3 things are on every map.
What is compass, title and key/legend?
What are northwest, southwest, southeast, northeast?
These are the cardinal directions.
What are north, south, east and west?