Map and globe skills vocab

A solid shape that is perfectly round like a ball. No faces, edges, or vertices.

• sphere

• circle

• triangle

• globe

a large body of water

• Ocean

• pond

• continent

• globe

half of a sphere

• lake

• mountain

• hemisphere

• radius

A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.

• trail

• map

• face

• scale

Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

• intermediate directions

• cardinal directions

• inset map

• compass rose

the four main directions on a compass rose: north, south, east, and west

• intermediate directions

• cardinal directions

• symbol

• inset map

information in the legend that tells the reader how to interpret distances on the map

• compass rose

• map key

• Equator

• distance scale

An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole

• scale

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• symbol

one of the large landmasses of the earth

• state

• city

• globe

• continet

the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole

• yards

• scale

• inset map

• ruler