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| political maps | hows information such as countires, states, cities |
| physical maps | shows Earth's natural features |
| elevation maps | use color to show the height of land above sea level |
| relief maps | a kind of physical map that show changes in elevation- use shading to show change in elevation |
| historical maps | show information about the past or where past events took place |
| distribution maps | show how things such a language, religion, population, and rainfall are distributed throughout an area |
| globe | a model that shows Earth as it looks when seen from outer space |
| continents | large bodies of land |
| ocean | large bodies of salt water |
| hemisphere | half a sphere |
| equator | an imaginary line circling Earth halfway between the North and South poles |
| latitude | distance north or south of the equator; measured by a set of imaginary lines or parallels,that run east and west around earth |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian measured by a set of imaginary lines, or meridians, that run north or south from Earth's poles |
| prime meridian | the line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world map from which longitude east and west are measured |
| parallel | any line of latitude north or south of the equator; never cross or meet |
| meridian | any line of longitude east or west of Earth's prime meridian |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, and west |
| intermediate directions | northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest |
| compass rose | a drawing that shows directions |
| scale | tells you how much smaller the distance on a map is compared with the actual distance |
| symbol | anything that stands for something else |
| map key | tells you what the symbols stand for |
| locators | to show where the subject area of the main map is located |
| examples of symbols | triangle, black dot, squares, and lines |
