Map Skills Vocabulary

The distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

• Latitude lines

• Equator

• Northern Hemisphere

• Longitude lines

How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another

• Regions

• Movement

• Human Environment Interaction

• Relative location

Designated at 0° longitude, passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Coordinates

• Absolute location

I wanted to find the location of the Rhine River so I used a _____________ map.

The geographic theme that explores how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment

• Absolute location

• Relative location

• Human Environment Interaction

• Political map

An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole

• Prime Meridian

• Longitude Lines

• Coordinates

• Equator

A geographic area defined by one or more characteristics that set it apart from other areas

• Climate

• Regions

• Cardinal Directions

• Compass Rose

The latitude and longitude address of a place on a map

• Relative location

• Equator

• Coordinates

• Regions

A particular position or point in space.

• Place

• Cardinal Directions

• Compass Rose

• Equator

The half of the Earth that lies north of the equator

• Southern Hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

• Regions

• Northern Hemisphere