Hemispheres & Location
The four main directions shown on maps.
What are cardinal directions (north, east, south, west)?
This map feature helps you understand what symbols represent on a map.
What is a map key (or legend)?
This is the imaginary line that goes through the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis?
This climate zone can be found in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
What is the polar zone?
The division of Earth into these four regions helps us locate continents.
What are hemispheres?
These two continents are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere
What are North America & South America?
This compass symbol shows the eight directional points on a map.
What is a compass rose?
The changing of seasons throughout the year is caused by this.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis toward the sun?
This climate zone is found between the tropics (between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn).
What is the tropical zone?
North, South, East, and West are examples of this type of direction.
What are cardinal directions?
This term describes where a place is compared to another place.
What is relative location?
This map feature compares distance on a map with distance on Earth.
What is a map scale?
The movement of our planet traveling in orbit around the sun.
This zone is found between the tropics.
What is the temperate zone?
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic oceans?
When representing continents on a hemisphere map, this issue causes changes in shape and size.
What is distortion?
Changes in shape, size, and position occur when representing Earth on a flat map because of this.
What is distortion?
When the sun shines straight down on the Tropic of Cancer, this season begins in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
The lines that represent where the sun hits.
What is latitude?
The 7 Continents
What are Asia, Africa, N. America, S. America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?
These directions include northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
This tool would help you identify characteristics and features of a location like a park.
What is a map key/legend?
When spring begins in the Southern Hemisphere, this season begins in the Northern Hemisphere
What is fall (or autumn)?
The polar zones receive the least amount of this throughout the year.
What is sunlight?
This feature of Earth causes temperature and seasonal differences across the planet.
What is the tilt (of Earth's axis)?