Map terms
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- What is a hemisphere?
- Half of a sphere, such as a ball or globe; a half of the Earth.
- What is a boundary?
- A border, or one of the outside edges of a place.
- What is "map scale"?
- It compares distance on a map with distance on the ground.
- What is "relative location"?
- The location of place in terms of where it is in relation to one or more other places on the Earth. Example: NC is in the Southeast of the US
- What is a compass rose?
- A direction marker that shows the cardinal, or main, directions.
- What are intermediate directions?
- The directions between the cardinal directions - northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest
- What is a map title?
- The map title tells what the map shows.
- What is the equator?
- An imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. The line that divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
- What are lines of longtitude?
- North-South lines on the globe drawn from the North and South Poles - they are farthest apart at the Equator.
- What is an inset map?
- A small map within a larger map.
- What are Lines of Latitude?
- East-West lines drawn on the globe. They are always the same distance apart and thus are called "parallels".
- What is a Locator?
- A small map or globe that shows where the place on the main map is located in a state, country, continent or the world.
- What is a continent?
- The largest land masses represented on a map - North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, Antartica
- What is a Grid?
- Lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares.
- What is the Prime Meridian?
- The starting point for measuring longtitude. Passes near London, England.
- What is "absolute location"?
- Exact position on the earth, using longtitude and latitude to describe this location.
- What are cardinal directions?
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North, South, East and West
- What is a symbol?
- Something that stands for something else.