Mapping Skills and Geography

What is a hemisphere?

• A diagram of a compass showing direction

• Height above sea level

• Half of Earth

• A line of latitude that separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres

What is latitude?

• Height above sea level

• The distance in degrees north or south of the Equator

• The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

• Half of Earth

What is longitude?

• The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

• A diagram of a compass showing direction

• Half of Earth

• A place's exact position on Earth in terms of latitude and longitude

What is Absolute Location?

• Map that shows physical features

• Shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on the land

• The distance north or south of the equator

• A place's exact position on Earth in terms of latitude and longitude

What is the Prime Meridian?

• A line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England and separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• A line of latitude that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• A place's exact position on Earth in terms of latitude and longitude

• Height above sea level

What is the Equator?

• A diagram of a compass showing direction

• The distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian

• A line of latitude that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Half of Earth

What is a compass rose?

• The distance north or south of the Equator

• A diagram of a compass showing direction

• Map that shows political units such as cities, states, and countries

• Height above sea level

What is elevation?

• Map that shows physical features

• Height above sea level

• Half of Earth

• A place's exact position on Earth in terms of latitude and longitude

What is a map key?

• Explains the symbols and shading on the map

• A diagram of a compass showing directions

• The distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian

• Shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on the land

What is a scale bar?

• A diagram of a compass showing direction

• Explains the symbols and shading on the map

• Shows hw much space on the map represents a given distance on the land

• Half of Earth