Unit 1 vocab

What is an instrument/tool for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north?

• Legend

• Compass

• Latitude

• Hemisphere

What term describes a table on a map, chart, or the like, listing and explaining the symbols used?

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Legend

• Nation

What lines measure the distance north or south from the equator on the earth's surface and represent the horizontal lines on a map/globe?

• Longitude

• Hemisphere

• Latitude

• Continent

What is the imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres, and is at 0° latitude?

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Longitude

• Nation

What lines measure the distance east or west on the earth's surface and represent the vertical lines on a map/globe?

• Latitude

• Hemisphere

• Longitude

• Continent

What is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around the Earth?

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Hemisphere

• Nation

What term describes the halves of the earth (north, south, east, west)?

• Hemisphere

• Continent

• Nation

• Legend

What is a land mass inhabited by people who share a common territory and government?

• Continent

• Hemisphere

• Nation

• Legend

What term describes the world's largest land masses (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America)?

• Hemisphere

• Continent

• Nation

• Latitude

What is the term for an area of land that has common features that can be defined by natural or artificial features such as language, government, religion, forests, wildlife, and climate?

• Axis

• Region

• Border

• Climate