Maps Skills And Thrills

One half of the Earth

• Atmosphere

• Hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Distance North or South of the equator

• Equator

• Longitude

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

A set of numbers that gives the location of a point on a map, grid or graph

• Hemisphere

• Relative Location

• Coordinates

• Absolute Location

A distance measured in degrees East or West of the Prime Meridian, passing through Greenwich, England

• Latitude

• Relative

• Absolute

• Longitude

0 degrees Latitude (between North and South), equal distance from the North and South Pole

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Landmark

• Relative

North and South Poles are this many degrees of Latitude from the Equator

• 45

• 60

• 90

• 30

35.3167° N, 139.5362° E Is an example of what?

• Coordinates

• Longitude

• Longitude and Latitude

• Latitude

This kind of map has specific kinds of information like road maps, metro maps, natural resource maps

• Political

• Physical

• Special Purpose

This map uses colors like green or brown for land and blue for water ways

• Physical

• Special Purpose

• Political

• Human

This map shows borders with countries, states, and cities and will show other human made structures

• Physical

• Political

• Special Purpose