North
A book of maps
What is Atlas?
A symbol on a map that shows the directions for north, south, east, and west
What is a compass rose?
Where a person or object is facing or moving toward.
What is direction?
How far it is from one point to another.
What is distance?
A view of something from above, as a bird might see it
What is a bird's eye view?
The imaginary east-west line on a globe or map that is an equal distance from the North and South Poles; 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
A drawing or picture on a flat piece of paper of a specific place or area of Earth’s surface that shows different features.
A table or chart that tells you what the parts of a map mean; usually found in one of the corners of the map.
The height of something; on maps, it is shown as the number of feet or metres above or below sea level
What is Elevation?
An imaginary line around which a spinning object spins.
What is axis?
A pair of numbers on a globe or map that shows where something is located
A measuring tool on a map that shows how distances on the map relate to actual distances on the ground.
What is a map scale?
Two lines that are the same distance apart and never meet.
An interesting or important part or characteristic of something.
What is a feature?
The movement of something through one complete circle.
What is rotation?
One of twenty-four zone around Earth within which everyone observes the same time.
What is time zone?
An imaginary line that runs north south on a globe or map but measures degrees of longitude east or west of the prime meridian
What is meridian?
The distance between the equator and a place north or south of the equator; measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
The distance between the equator and a place north or south of the equator; measured in degrees
What is Longitude?
A line that generally follows 180˚ longitude; by international agreement, the calendar day on the east side of the line is one day earlier than the calendar day on the west side of the line