Understanding maps help us to find places and show us how to get there. Map language is part of knowing about location.

1. UNDERSTANDING MAPS

2. Location
 Where a specific place on earth can be found.

3. Map
 A drawing of a place
 Has information about features of the area.
 Maps are usually flat

4. Globe
 A model of the
earth

5. Sphere
 A solid figure that has a shape of a ball.

6. Hemisphere Half of a sphere

7. North Pole
 The geographic point on Earth which is the
farthest north.

8. South Pole
 The geographic point on Earth which is
furthest south.

9. EQUATOR An imaginary line that
divides the earth into
the northern and the
southern hemispheres

10. Prime meridian
 An imaginary line that circles the Earth from
pole to pole, It divides the Earth into Eastern
and Western Hemispheres.

11. Lines of Longitude
 Imaginary lines on a
map or globe that
run from north to
south.They can tell
you how far east or
west a place is
located from the
prime meridian.

12. Lines of Latitude
 Imaginary lines on a map or globe that
run from east to west. Lines of latitude
can tell you how far north or south a
place is located from the equator.

13. Compass
A tool that shows the
direction of magnetic
North.

14. Compass Rose
 The part of the map that
shows directions

15. Directions
North, South, East ,
West

16. Distance
The amount of space
between two points

17. Elevation
The
height a
landform
is above
sea level

18. Grid
 a series of horizontal and perpendicular lines
used to find coordinates of a point

19. Scale
 A place on a map usually located on the key
that compares the size of the model to the
actual size of the area being represented.

20. Symbol
Something on a map that
stands for something else.

21. Sources:
 http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/newart/he
mispheres.gif
 http://www.alexmorgan.com/miles.jpg
 http://www.google.com.ph/imglanding
 http://www.google.com.ph/image1

22. Sources:
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm
ons/f/f8/World_map_with_equator.jpg
 http://www.nssgeography.com/canada9%20
web/Unit%20Map%20Skills/Longitude%20an
d%20latitude_files/image005.jpg
 http://www.kidsgeo.com/images/graphic-
map-scale.jpg
 http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-
map-symbols-image6021340