Map Skills

Question 1

How much water covers the earth

Answer 1

3/4s

Question 2

What is the large body of water called?

Answer 2

Oceans

Question 3

What is the large land areas called

Answer 3

continents

Question 4

What are the 5 oceans

Answer 4

Arctic, Southern, Pacific, Indian, Alantic

Question 5

Some countries don’t reconize the southern ocean (Which is the 5th ocean) which country doesn’t reconize the 5th ocean

Answer 5

United States

Question 6

What are the 7 continents

Answer 6

Asia, Afrcia, North and South America, Europe, Asia, Austalia

Question 7

What is Europe and Asia called combined

Answer 7

Eurasia

Why?
{Europe and asia is one big landmass that is why it is sometimes called Eurasia}

Question 8

What are the horizontal lines of paralles are called what?

Answer 8

latitude

Question 9

The verticals are meridians of what?

Answer 9

longitude

Question 10

What way does parrelles ring the globe?

Answer 10

horizontally

Question 11

What deegres is the equator at?

Answer 11

0 deegres

Question 12

What are the parralles north of the equator called?

Answer 12

North parralles

Question 13

Meridians of longitude divide the globe in what sections

Answer 13

vertical

Question 14

What is the prime Meridean

Answer 14

0 degrees longitude

Question 15

What does the global grid show?

Answer 15

lines of long and lat

Question 16

Witch comes first, long or lat? for the global grid

Answer 16

latitude comes first

Question 17

_________ can be used to locate any point on Earth.

Answer 17

coordinutes

Question 18

Hemisphere is half of a globe or sphere, in geography what does hemi mean?

Answer 18

Half of planet earth

Question 19

Equator divieds North and south hemispears so what does Prime Merdian divides

Answer 19

East and west

Question 20

What are the 4 cardinal directions?

Answer 20

North, south, east, west

Question 21

Are there 4 or 8 cardinal directions?

Answer 21

4
North, South, East, West

Because some compuses are harder

Question 22

What are the sub directions

Answer 22

North-south, North-east, South-west, South-east

Because some compuses are harder

Question 23

what is the most important part or a map?

Answer 23

THE TITLE

Question 24

Why is the title the most important part in the map?

Answer 24

Because it tells you what the map is about

Question 25

What is a leagend or key?

Answer 25

It tells what the symbols mean?