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social studies
Map Skills
Term | Definition |
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Birds eye view | A view from above |
Borough | A part of a city |
Boundry line- | a line that shows the outline of where a place starts and begins |
Cardinal directions | main directions: north, south, east and west |
Cartographer | map maker |
Continent- | large area of land |
Country | place where people have the same leaders and laws, |
Equator | imaginary line that divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemisphere |
Globe | model of Earth |
Hemisphere- | half of Earth |
Map key | Explains what the symbols on a map mean, |
Ocean- | about 71% of Earth is made up of salt water/ |
Population- | number of people in a place |
Prime meridian | imaginary line that divides Earth into Western and Eastern Hemispheres. |
State | part of a country |