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social studies
Map Skills
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |