Directions
What a compass rose is
A tool to tell direction
The directions Latitude lines go on a map or globe
East and West
The purpose of a map key on a map
Says what each symbols stands for
What "Hemi" means
half
List 4 things you see in each of your 4 cardinal directions
(answers may vary)
The four cardinal directions
North, South, West, East
The directions Longitude lines go on a map or globe
North and South
What a scale is
Compares how big the things are in real life to how big they are on the map
What a hemisphere is
Half of the globe. A globe can be split in half 2 different ways
What a symbol on a map is and list one example
A symbol represents something else. A star is a capital, a dot is a city, a star in a circle is a national capital
The four intermediate directions
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
The meeting point for meridians
The prime meridian
What a locator is
A small map in the bottom right corner of the map. It usually gives background information
Where the equator is
Halfway between the North and South poles
List an example or 2 of a locator on a map
answers may vary (map of state in packet showed where the state is in the U.S.)
Using cardinal and intermediate directions tell us how you would get from your seat to the door of the classroom
(answers may vary)
Another name for Latitude
Parallels
What a scale looks like on a map
Two lines representing the distance in real life and the distance on a map
The part of the globe we are located on
The Northwestern part. The Northern and Westerns hemispheres.
List the 7 continents
North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Antarctica, Australia
Draw a compass rose
answer should include a correctly drawn compass rose with cardinal and intermediate directions
Another name for Longitude
Meridians
The different components of a map
Symbols, map key, scale, locator
A country in the Eastern Hemisphere of a globe
Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Africa
List the 4 Oceans
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic