Map Skills
Spherical representation of Earth
What is a Globe?
What is a Compass Rose?
Name for the (imaginary) body of water at the top of the world
What is Open Polar Sea?
Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast are examples of this
What are Intermediate Directions?
This SOAR goal represents Safe
What is S?
Flat representation of an area
What is a map
Imaginary line around the Earth equally distant from the poles
What is the Equator?
Name of cartographer who drew a special map of the North Pole.
Who is Geradus Mercator?
The 7 Largest landmasses on Earth are called
What are Continents?
This Soar goal represents R
What is Respect?
The four Cardinal Directions
What is North, South, East, West?
Imaginary east-west lines that measure distance north or south of the Equator
What are Lines of Latitude?
Mercator was dead for this many years before explorers actually got to the North Pole
What is 300 years?
True or False
Austria is a Continent
What is False?
This SOAR goal represents Accountable
What is A?
This part of a map explains the different symbols on the map
What is the Map Key?
Imaginary lines running from pole to pole that measure distance east or west from the Prime Meridian
What are Lines of Longitude?
This special water action was the center of Mercator's North Pole Map
What is a Whirlpool?
The Atlantic is one of these bodies of water
What is an Ocean?
This SOAR goal represents O
What is On Task?
This part of the map explains the ratio of distances between the map and real locations
What is the Map Scale?
Imaginary ling running between the poles that separates the Earth into East and West.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Mercator placed this at the exact center of his North Pole Map
What is a Magnetic Mountain made of black rock?
The Sun always rises in this Cardinal Direction
What is East?
Keeping your hands and feet to yourself is an example of this SOAR goal
What is Safe?