1. Map and Globe Review

2. What is a round model of the Earth called?
Answer: a globe

3. Name the four cardinal directions.
Answer: North, South, East and West

4. What is the imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres called?
Answer: the equator

5. Name the 7 continents
Answer: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica and Africa

6. Name the four oceans.
Answer: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Arctic Ocean

7. Which 2 hemispheres does the prime meridian divide the earth into?
Answer: Eastern and Western Hemispheres

8. What is half a sphere called?
Answer: a hemisphere

9. One of the Earth’s seven great bodies of land is called a ____________.
Answer: continent

10. Answer: Prime Meridian
What is the imaginary line that separates the eastern and western hemispheres called?
Answer: Prime Meridian

11. Which map shows information such as cities, capitals, states, and countries?
Answer: Political Map

12. Which map shows information about past events and where they occurred?
Answer: Historical Map

13. Which map shows natural features of the Earth?
Answer: Physical Map

14. What shows the relationship between distances on a map and actual distances?
Answer: scale

15. Answer: Map Key or Legend
What explains what each symbol on a map stands for? (It goes by two names.)
Answer: Map Key or Legend

16. A picture of the Earth’s surface that shows the distance, direction, and size of a place is called a ____________.
Answer: map

17. A person who makes map is called a ___________.
Answer: Cartographer

18. Bonus: What hemispheres do we live in?
Answer: Northern and Western Hemisphere