3rd Grade Geography Skills: Maps | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Maps

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A flat drawing of an area (state, country, city, etc.)

map

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Tells you what the map shows

title

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This explains the meaning of the symbols on a map

legend/map key

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A marking, picture, or color that stands for something else

symbol

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Shows you the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west

Compass rose

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north, south, east and west

cardinal directions

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Shows information such as state or national borders, often shows capital city and major cities

political map

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Shows the landforms (mountains, valleys, plains, deserts) an bodies of water found in a place

physical map

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The natural features of a place

physical geography

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A model of Earth in the shape of a sphere

globe

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An imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere

equator

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Parts of the Earth (Northern Southern, Eastern and Western)

hemisphere

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Lines that measure distances NORTH TO SOUTH of the equator

latitude

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Lines that measure distances EAST AND WEST of the prime meridian

longitude

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