Week 5: Map Skills PDF

Week 5: Map Skills 1. absolute location: the exact location of a place 2. cardinal directions: the four main points on a compass 3. continents: large areas of land 4. coordinate grid system: a grid that uses letters and numbers to label the grid lines 5. Eastern Hemisphere: h...

Week 5: Map Skills 1. absolute location: the exact location of a place 2. cardinal directions: the four main points on a compass 3. continents: large areas of land 4. coordinate grid system: a grid that uses letters and numbers to label the grid lines 5. Eastern Hemisphere: half of the Earth east of the Prime Meridian 6. Equator: imaginary horizontal line that runs around the middle of the world 7. grid: squares formed by lines on a map that make finding a location easier 8. intermediate directions: northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast 9. latitude: lines that run east and west around the Earth 10. location: where a place is 11. longitude: vertical lines that go from the North Pole to the South Pole around the Earth 12. meridians: another name for lines of longitude 13. Northern Hemisphere: the half of the Earth north of the Equator 14. parallels: another name for lines of latitude 15. Prime Meridian: divides the world into halves called the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere 16. Southern Hemisphere: the half of the Earth south of the Equator Western Hemisphere: half of the Earth west of the Prime Meridian