Map Components

The 4 main compass points: North, South, East, West

• Intermediate Directions

• Equator

• Cardinal Directions

• Relative Location

Lines running North & South, parallel to the prime meridian.

• hemisphere

• longitude

• equator

• relative location

a half of the earth.

• absolute location

• compass rose

• latitude

• hemisphere

a map feature that shows the 4 cardinal & the 4 intermediate directions.

• compass rose

• prime meridian

• longitude

• cardinal directions

lines running east and west, parallel to the equator.

• prime meridian

• absolute location

• latitude

• hemisphere

0 degree line running east to west dividing the northern and southern hemispheres.

• compass rose

• relative location

• longitude

• equator

nw, sw, se, ne; points of the compass that fall between the cardinal directions

• compass rose

• intermediate directions

• North, South, East, West

• equator

0 degree line running north and south dividing the eastern and western hemispheres.

• latitude

• cardinal directions

• compass rose

• prime meridian

An exact place on earth ( measured by latitude & longitude or an address)

• hemisphere

• relative location

• absolute location

• equator

The position of something relative to another place. (Example: Mexico is South of the USA)

• relative location

• hemisphere

• absolute location

• compass rose