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Parts of a Map
Directions and Spheres
Lines
Over the River and through the Mountains
Kinds of Maps
100
What a map or globe is about
What is the title.
100
The main directions: north, south, east, and west
What are cardinal directions.
100
Lines that run north and south are lines of _______.
What is longitude.
100
This river runs through New York.
What is the Hudson River.
100
This map shows capitals of states and its cities.
What is a political map.
200
Shows the title of the map and symbols to help read the map
What is the legend or map key.
200
Between the cardinal directions: northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest
What are intermediate directions.
200
Lines that run east and west are lines of ________.
What is latitude.
200
This river runs from Colorado over to the California/Mexico border.
What is the Colorado River.
200
This map shpws the different regions (mountains, plains, etc) of a state and its rivers and lakes.
What is a landform map.
300
Used on the map or globe to represent places or things
What are symbols.
300
The _______ divides the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere.
What is equator.
300
The name for the line that is at 0 degrees latitude is the __________.
What is equator.
300
This river runs from Colorado, down the border of Texas and Mexico, and into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River.
300
This map shows something found in nature that people use (air, water, crops,soil, and minerals).
What is a resource map.
400
Allows us to estimate real distances on the map or globe
What is a scale.
400
The _______ divides the earth into the eastern and western hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian.
400
The name for the line that is 0 degrees longitude is ______.
What is Prime Meridian.
400
This river runs from Minnesota down to Louisiana and into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River.
400
This map is a pattern of lines that form squares where each square has a letter and a number.
What is a grid map.
500
The name for a set of points that shows directions
What is the compass rose.
500
These are the two hemispheres in which we live.
What are western and northern.
500
The Prime Meridian passes through this place.
What is Greenwich, England.
500
This river branches off the Mississippi River to the northeast.
What is the Ohio River.
500
What is the difference between the map scale and a compass rose? Give an example of a time you would use each.
What is... A scale can tell you how many miles a place is away. A compas rose will help you know which direction to travel. Answers will vary.