Map Skills Vocabulary

These directions are North, East, South, and West.

The tool or part of the map that shows the Cardinal Directions.

A drawing that shows what places look like from above and where they are located.

This used to figure out the relationshipbetween distances on a map and distances in real life.

A set of imaginary lines running in a North-South direction across Earth’s surface.

What is a half of the Earth called?

The center line of longitude.

A set of imaginary lines running inEast-West direction across the Earth’s surface

These directions are Northeast, South East,North West, South West

What is the center line of latitude?

A picture or object that represents for somethingelse.

This item on a map tells us what place a map represents.

This has a pattern of lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image ora map

This part of a map tells what shapes andsymbols mean

What is a round model of the Earth?