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18 Cards in this Set
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What is a hemisphere?
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Half of a sphere, such as a ball or globe; a half of the Earth.
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What is a boundary?
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A border, or one of the outside edges of a place.
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What is "map scale"?
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It compares distance on a map with distance on the ground.
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What is "relative location"?
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The location of place in terms of where it is in relation to one or more other places on the Earth. Example: NC is in the Southeast of the US
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What is a compass rose?
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A direction marker that shows the cardinal, or main, directions.
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What are intermediate directions?
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The directions between the cardinal directions - northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest
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What is a map title?
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The map title tells what the map shows.
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What is the equator?
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An imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. The line that divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
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What are lines of longtitude?
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North-South lines on the globe drawn from the North and South Poles - they are farthest apart at the Equator.
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What is an inset map?
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A small map within a larger map.
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What are Lines of Latitude?
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East-West lines drawn on the globe. They are always the same distance apart and thus are called "parallels".
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What is a Locator?
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A small map or globe that shows where the place on the main map is located in a state, country, continent or the world.
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What is a continent?
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The largest land masses represented on a map - North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, Antartica
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What is a Grid?
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Lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares.
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What is the Prime Meridian?
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The starting point for measuring longtitude. Passes near London, England.
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What is "absolute location"?
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Exact position on the earth, using longtitude and latitude to describe this location.
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What are cardinal directions?
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North, South, East and West
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What is a symbol?
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Something that stands for something else.
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