Mapping Vocabulary

Geography

• Where a place is located in relation to another place.

• The study of features on earth's surface, including landforms, water bodies, climate, plants, animals, and people.

• It usually describes the area shown on a map.

• The precise point where a place is located on earth.

Relative Location

• Where a place is located in relation to another place.

• The precise point where a place is located on the earth.

• The southernmost line of latitude

• Imaginary lines around Earth that run parallel to the equator.

Absolute Location

• Where a place is located in relation to another place.

• The precise point where a place is located on earth.

• The northernmost line of latitude.

• The line of latitude that marks the boundary of the southern polar zone.

Latitude

• The northernmost lines of latitude

• To change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.

• The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees.

• The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees.

Longitude

• One half of a sphere

• It usually describes the area shown on a map.

• The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees.

• The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees.

Distortion

• A diagram on a map

• A change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.

• Where a place is located in relation to another place.

Compass Rose

• It usually describes the area shown on the map.

• A diagram on a map that shows directons such as north, south, east, and west.

• It lists each symbol and explains what is shown on the map.

• The study of features of earth's surface

Scale Bar

• It tells you how to read distance on a map

• A diagram on a map that shows directions such as north, south, east, and west.

• It usually describes the area shown on the map and identifies the map's main topic.

• To change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.

Title

• It usually describes the area shown on the map, and identifies the map's main topic.

• It lists each symbol & explains what is shown on the map.

• The precise point where a place is located on earth.

• A diagram on a map that shows directions suchs as north, south, east, or west

Legend or Key

• It tells you how to read directions on a map.

• A diagram on a map that shows directions such as north, south, east, or west.

• It lists each symbol and explains what is shown on the map.

• It usually describes the area shown on the map and identifies the map's main topic.