Maps

What is a legend on a map?

• a list of symbols on a map

• a map showing boundaries of countries, states, provinces, or cities

hemisphere

• Half of the Earth

• Imaginary line that divides the Earth into north and south hemisphere

What is a compass rose?

• lines that run east to west and help locate exact places

• a symbol that shows directions

A scale is

• shows how distances on the map are related to actual distances

• Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

Latitude

• lines that run north to south and help locate exact places

• lines that run west to east and help locate exact places

longitude

• lines that run north to south and help locate exact places

• lines that run east to west and help locate exact places

Equator is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of the Earth

• True

• false

Prime meridian Imaginary line that divides the Earth into north and south hemisphere

• true

• false

intermediate directions

• Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

• North, South, East, West

physical map

• a map showing boundaries of countries, states, provinces, or cities

• a map that shows natural features