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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?