Parts of a Map and Understanding the Globe (6th grade)

Atlantic, Pacific, Artic, Indian, and Antarctic

• Compass Rose

• Hemispheres

• Equator

• Ocean

Tells the subject of the map and identifies special features. i.e. color codes

• Archaelology

• Map Title/Map Key

• Political Maps

• Physical Maps

Shows the names and borders of countries, locations of cities and human-made features of a place.

• Political Map

• Paleontology

• Map Title/Map Key

• Physical Maps

This map shows land, water and mountain features. Colors include green and brown for land and blue for water.

• Physical Maps

• Tropic of Cancer

• Political Maps

• Special-Purpose Maps

Looks at prehistoric times through studying fossils (plant and animal life) to learn what the world once looked like.

• Paleontology

• Anthropology

• Archaelolgy

• Political Maps

Lines running north and south

• Northern Hemisphere

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Continents

Is the study of the past by digging up artifacts and looking at what people have left behind. They dig up the past!

• Archaeology

• Arctic Circle

• Projection

• Anthropology

Large pieces of land; Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, Europe, and Australia

• Continents

• Archaelolgy

• Projection

• Political Map

Shows patterns such as climate, natural resources or population, road map or historical info like a battle.

• Special-purpose Maps

• Physical Maps

• Projection

• Political Map

0 degrees latitude, an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.

• Projection

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Paleontology