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5th Grade Map Skills Vocabulary
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5th Grade Map Skills Vocabulary
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1. a unit of measurement for latitude and longitude

2. An imaginary line that shows the distance north or south of the Equator.

3. lines, small drawings, or fields of color that stand for something else on a map

4. A fancy design with four large pointers that show the directions north, south, east, and west on a map.

5. A map tool that helps to determine the distance between two locations on a map.

6. An imaginary line that shows how far east or west of the prime meridian a place is located.

7. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

8. a large area in which places share similar characteristics'>

9. or legend, is a small box that tells what each symbol stands for

10. the half of the Earth north of the Equator

11. study of the Earth

12. the half of the Earth south of the Equator

13. the hemisphere east of the Prime Meridian

14. the four pointers that show the directions north, south, east, and west

15. An imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, that marks the zero degree line of longitude

16. the largest land masses on Earth are divided into seven parts: Africa, Antartica, Asia, Austrailia, Europe, North America and South America

17. west of the Prime Meridian