Map Skills Unit 1

A drawing of the Earth's surface

• Compass Rose

• map

• Map Scale

• Cardinal Directions

The four basic directions north, south, east and west

• hemisphere

• indicate

• intermediate directions

• landform

Half of the Earth

• Globe

• North America

• hemisphere

• map

To point out or show

• border

• indicate

• map

• South America

A natural feature of the Earth's surface

• ocean

• mountain

• landform

• compass rose

Map legend

• geography

• the lines that go east to west on a map called latitude

• a diagram that explains what symbols on a map mean

• a nation with it's own government

geography

• the study of the oceans

• one of the the 7 very large land masses

• They study of the Earth

• a nation with its own government

Equator

• a drawing of the Earth's surface

• the imaginary line the is halfway between the North and South Poles

• the northern continent in the western hemisphere

• a large body of water

Prime Meridian

• The line on a map half way between the North and South Poles

• A line on a map that runs through England which marks the 0 line of longitude

• The study of the Earth

• The line that separates cities, states, and countries

Latitude

• Lines on a map that are parallel to the Equator

• a section of the country

• A line on a map halfway between the North and South Poles

• A part of a map that helps you find distance