What is a map? A map is a smaller representation of an area.

What are the four parts of a map?

1. title 2. key 3. compass 4. scale

What is the title?

Tells what the map is about

The World’s FeaturesNatural Wonders

Important Land and Water Area of the World

The World Map

Fantastic Wonders

What is the key?

Tells what the symbols of the map mean

What is the compass rose?

Is the direction marker

What are the cardinal directions?

Are the middle directions NE-NW-SE-SW

Are the main directions N-S-E-W

What are the intermediate directions?

What is the scale?

Shows distance in relation to a measurement or standard

What is the inset map?

A small map within a larger map

What is the locator?

A small map or picture, within a map, that shows where the region on the main map is located in a state, country, continent or world.

What is a grid?

Lines that run north-south and east-west to help locate a place on a map

What are lines of longitude?

Lines that run north-south on a map

What are lines of latitude?

Lines that run east-west on a map

0o latitude divides the northern and southern hemispheres

0o longitude divides the eastern and western hemispheres

What is the equator?

What is the Prime Meridian?

What are the four hemispheres?

Northern, southern, eastern, and western

What are the seven continents?

North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica

What are the four oceans? Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic