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Map Vocabulary
What’s My Line
Lines of Longitude and Latitude
HemispheresHow Far
is Far
North, South, East, and West
What are the cardinal directions?
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and
Northwest
What are the intermediate directions?
Helps to determine how far it really is
between places
What is the scale?
Half of the Earth’s surface
What is a hemisphere?
Shows the scale and the symbols for a map
or globe
What is the key or legend?
The line of latitude that divides the earth into the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres. It
measures O degrees.
What is the Equator?
Another name for latitude
What is a parallel?
The line of longitude that is located at O
degrees. It separates the Eastern and
Western Hemishperes.
What is the prime meridian?
The line of latitude that is located at 23
degrees north.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The line of longitude that is located at 180 degrees. It separates
the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the International
Dateline?
Tells us how far north of the equator or how
far south of the equator a place is
located.
What is latitude?
Tells us how far east of the Prime Meridan or
how far west of the Prime Meridian a place is located.
What is longitude?
The distance between two consecutive lines
of latitude.
What is 70 miles?
The country located at 10 degrees north and
30 degrees east.
What is Sudan?
The city that is located at approximately 42 degrees north and 88
degrees west.
What is Chicago?
South America is located in these
hemispheres
What are Northern, Southern, and
Western?
The continent that is located in all four
hemispheres
What is Africa?
The hemispheres in which you will find the
United States
What are the Northern and the Western
hemispheres?
China is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and the Northern
Hemishpere?
England is located in these hemishperes.
What are Northern, Eastern, and Western?
Michigan is ________ of Arizona.
What is northeast?
The approximate distance from Denver
to Pueblo
What is 100 miles?
The approximate distance from West Palm Beach, Fl. To
Cheyenne, Wyoming
What is 1,800 miles?
The approximate distance from Salt Lake City, Utah to
Topeka, Kansas
What is 900 miles?
Nebraska is _________ of Florida.
What is northwest?