Basic Map Skills

This feature on a map shows direction.

• Compass

• Scale

• Meridian

• Equator

This feaure on a map shows how far places are.

• Scale

• Globe

• Compass

• Longitude

These lines run east and west or parallel.

• latitude

• longitude

• Prime Meridian

• Compass

These lines run north and south or horizontal.

• longitude

• latitude

• Equator

• Scale

North, South, East and West.

• Cardinal Directions

• Intermediate Directions

• Map Scale

• Prime Meridian

Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest.

• Intermediate Directions

• Cardinal Directions

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Best model of the Earth.

• Globe

• Map

Flat representation of the Earth.

• Map

• Globe

Divides the Earth into an Eastern and Western hemisphere.

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Divides the Earth into a Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian