Map Skills
Using places to describe other places - landmarks, time, directions or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another.
Relative Location
The imaginary line halfway between the North and South Poles at 0 degrees latitude is called?
The Equator
What divides the Northern and Southern hemispheres
The Equator
What are the labels that help us organize the world?
Regions
What do you call the movement of people from place to place? This includes goods and services.
Movement
How are physical and human characteristics of a place defined and distinquished?
Place
The line of longitude marked 0 degrees is called
Prime Meridian
What type of directions include North, South, East and West?
Cardinal directions
What do you call a small drawing with lines on a map which shows which way cardinal and intermediate directions are? its a direction marker.
A Compass Rose
What do you call the person who studies geography?
A Geographer
A round model of the Earth is called
A Globe
What do you call the lines on a map that cross each other to form a pattern of squares used to locate places?
A Grid System
What do you call a small map or globe that shows where a place on a main map is located in a state, in a country or in the world?
A Locator
What do you call the key that tells you what the symbols on your map stand for?
A Map Key
What is it on a map that tells you the relationship between the distance shown on the msp and the real directions on Earth?
A Map Scale
What do you call the words on a map that tell you the subject of that map?
A Map Title
What do you call the pictures or signs that stand for something on a map?
A symbol
Latitude and longitude or a street address
Absoloute Location
What are 2 states you sometimes see inset on a map of the United States?
Alaska and Hawaii
What is the small map you see on a larger map called?
An Inset Map
What do you call the study of the Earth's surface and the ways people use it?
Geography
half of a sphere is called
Hemisphere
Defined as how humans modify and adapt to natural settings
Human Environment Interactions
The directions between the Cardinal directions are called?
Intermediate directions
northeast, southwest, southeast and northwest are examples of what type directions?
Intermediate directions
Measures distance North or South the lines go East to West
Latitude
What is defined as the absoulute and relative position of a place on the Earth's surface?
Location
Measures distances East or West the lines go north to south
Longitude