Mapping Terms

Imaginary lines on a map that run north to south that locate places East or West of the Prime Meridian.

• Scale

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Cardinal Direction

A small picture in the key that represents an object on the map.

Imaginary line that runs horizontally across the globe that splits the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Compass Rose

Scale (Check all that apply):

• Represents distance between 2 places on a map

• Shows directions on a map

• Changes depending on the map

• Includes miles and Kilometres

A compass rose is

• The thing you hold to know which direction you are going.

• Changes based on where you are looking.

• Shows the distance between two points on a map.

• A picture on a map that gives directions and always points North.

Latitude

• Lines that run north and south on a map

• Split the globe into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

• Lines that run across a globe/map.

• Measure how far north or south something is from the Equator.

The longitude line that splits the globe into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Cardinal Directions

A chart on a map that shows what the symbols stand for.

• Map Key or Legend

• Compass

• Symbols

• Latitude

This gives information about what the map is showing you.

• Symbol

• Map Key

• Map Title

• Compass Rose

What are the four major compass points called (they include North, East, South, and West)?

• Intermediate Directions

• Compass

• Latitude

• Cardinal Directions