Geography Skills Handbook

What is a title on a map?

• Tells you what the colors are

• Tells you what the map shows

• Tells you which direction to go

What word means: Explains the meaning of the symbols on the map?

• Title

• Scale

• Map Legend/Map Key

• Compass Rose

What word means: A marking or color that stands for something else ?

• Title

• Scale

• Map Legend/Map Key

• Symbol

What word means: Shows distance and helps you see how far apart locations are ?

• Title

• Scale

• Map Legend/Map Key

• Symbol

What word means: Shows you the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west ?

• Compass Rose

• Scale

• Map Legend/Map Key

• Symbol

What does a political map show?

• shows where the different Presidents lived

• shows state or national borders and names of cities, states, and countries

• shows the southern and western hemisphere

• shows the line of longitude

What is a globe?

• is an imaginary line that extends around the center of Earth

• measures distances north and south of the equator

• set of lines that from from the North Pole to the South Pole

• model of Earth

What is the equator?

• is an imaginary line that extends around the center of Earth

• measures distances north and south of the equator

• set of lines that from from the North Pole to the South Pole

• model of Earth

What are lines of latitude?

• is an imaginary line that extends around the center of Earth

• measures distances north and south of the equator

• set of lines that from from the North Pole to the South Pole

• model of Earth

What are lines of longitude?

• is an imaginary line that extends around the center of Earth

• measures distances north and south of the equator

• set of lines that from from the North Pole to the South Pole

• model of Earth