Models of the World
What is used to see the Earth in a spherical shape?
A. Globe
B. Scale
C. Map
D. Legend
A. Globe
What is a cartographer?
A person who creates a map
What is the horizontal line that runs around the middle of the world?
Equator
What is the largest ocean in the world?
Pacific Ocean
This map shows the natural features of a place (landforms, mountains, and valleys)
A. Political Map
B. Historical Map
C. Physical Map
D. Population Map
C. Physical Map
What is a drawing of a place called?
A. Scale
B. Sketch
C. Draft
D.Map
D. Map
________________of a place tells us where a place is relative to, or compared to, something else.
A. Absolute location
B. Relative location
C. Similar location
D. Approximate location
B. Relative location
This is a division on Earth between the north and south or the eat and the west.
A. Equator
B. Hemisphere
C. Latitude
D. Prime Meridian
B. Hemisphere
This is the largest continent in the world
Asia
This map shows the overall distribution of the population within a region.
Population Map
What is used to tell a distance on a map?
Scale
This is the exact location of a place.
A. Absolute location
B. Relative location
C. Similar location
D. Approximate location
A. Absolute location
This includes all of the land and oceans that are north of the Equator
A. Equator
B. Latitude lines
C. Northern Hemisphere
D. North Latitude
C. Northern Hemisphere
What is the continent that is north of South American
North America
This line divides the world into halves the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Prime Meridian
What explains what the symbols and colors on the map represent?
Legend/Key
What is the map tool that is used to find absolute location?
A. Map title
B. Compass rose
C. Legend
D. Grid system
D. Grid System
This divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
Equator
This is the smallest continent in the world?
Australia
This map shows whether a place is usually warm or cold and wet or dry
Climate Map
This is a symbol that shows the cardinal directions on a map.
Compass rose
Vertical lines that go around the Earth from the North Pole to the south Pole
A. Latitude
B. Longitude
C. invisible line
D. Equator
B. Longitude
This includes everything to the south
Southern Hemisphere
What is the ocean that is north of Europe?
Arctic Ocean
This map shows the borders of regions, countries, states, and cities.
Political Map