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