5th Grade Map Terms

What are northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest?

Name the imaginary line that separates the E and W Hemispheres & has a longitude of 0 degrees.

Name the largest continent.

What is the point north on Earth where the lines of longitude meet (90 degrees N latitude)?

What map feature explains what each symbol on the map or globe means?

What map feature is made up of drawings, lines, and dots that stand for something else?

Name the smallest continent.

What are measured in degrees east and west of the prime meridian and run north and south?

What do you call a flat model of the Earth?

What is a word for the typical weather of a specific place on Earth?

What are north, south, east, and west?

What are measured in degrees north and south of the equator and run east and west?

Name the smallest ocean.

Name the imaginary line that separates the N and S Hemispheres & has a latitude of 0 degrees.

What do you call a small model of the Earth when its shape imitates the shape of our planet?

What map feature shows how much smaller the map is than the real world?

Name the largest ocean.

What is the point south on Earth where the lines of longitude meet (90 degrees S latitude)?

What do you call half of the Earth?

What is a word for the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level?

What is another word for rain or snow?

Name the symbol that shows directions on a map.