The document defines key map terminology including location, maps, globes, hemispheres, poles, the equator, prime meridian, lines of longitude and latitude, compasses, compass roses, directions, distance, elevation, grids, scales, symbols and sources. Maps are drawings that provide information about features of an area using these geographic representations and conventions.

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