Maps and Globes Vocabulary

What is the shape of the earth?

• Oval

• Hemisphere

• Circle

• Sphere

What continents are in the Western Hemisphere?

• Australia and Europe

• North and South America

• South America and Antarctica

• Asia and Europe

Asia, Australia and most of Europe are (a)   hemisphere.

Which two are found in the southern hemisphere?

• South America

• Asia

• Antarctica

• Australia

What is half of a sphere

(a)  

90 north latitude is located at the​ (a)   90 south is latitude is the ​ (b)  

• North Pole
• south pole

The world is broken into how many hemispheres?

(a)  

Exact location of a place expressed by longitude and latitude​ (a)   or

• absolute location
• relative location

Match the following

• parallel lines running north and south

• longitude

• lines of latitude

• parallel

• meridians that run east and west

• global grid

• a set of squares formed by crisscrossing

• latitude

• lines of longitude

• merdian

The location of a place in relation to another place.

• relative location

• absolute location

• parallel

• meridian