Geography-Week 1- Maps

What is zero degrees longitude?

A 2-dimensional, flat representation of Earth that shows physical features; landforms

What are the imaginary lines that run from North to South around the Earth?

What are the imaginary lines the run from East to West around the Earth?

A 2-dimensional, flat representation of Earth with boundaries of countries are shown

What is the exact point where a place is located, identified by latitude and longitude?

What do you call the directions between North, South, East, and West, such as Northeast and SW?

What is it called when searching for the position of a place in relation to other places?

What is another name for lines of latitude?

What part of the map explains what the different colors or symbols mean?

A 2-dimensional, flat representation of Earth that shows special features like weather

What gives information about the map?

What is this?

What is zero degrees latitude?

What is another name for lines of longitude?

What part of the map helps us determine the actual distance between two points on a map?

What do we call the main directions, North, South, East, and West?

What is it called on a map where latitude and longitude lines create this?