1. Warm-Up 8/9/2016
Make sure you have gotten an Opening and Closing sheet from me when you walked in. Complete the “Opening” portion of the worksheet.
You will complete the “Closing” portion at the end of class and we will discuss it then.

2. Map Elements

3. Map Elements Entry
You will set up your first entry like the following page!

4. Front Back

5. 1. Title
Tells what the map is about.

6. Front Back

7. helps locate directions on a map.
2. Compass Rose
helps locate directions on a map.
North
South
East
West

8. Front Back

9. 3. Map Legends
The key to unlocking the secrets of a map. Objects or colors in the legend represent something on the map.
Religions Legend

10. Can you understand this legend?

11. Front Back

12. 4. Latitude and Longitude
The earth is divided into lots of lines called latitude and longitude.

13. Longitude lines run north and south.
Latitude lines run east and west.
Latitude lines are measured in degrees north and south
Longitude lines are measured in degrees east and west

15. Equator Equator The equator is 0 degree latitude.
It is an imaginary belt that runs halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
Equator

16. P R I M E D A N
Prime Meridian
The prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude. This imaginary line runs through the United Kingdom, France, Spain, western Africa, and Antarctica.

18. Front Back

19. 5. Hemispheres
By using the equator and prime meridian, we can divide the world into four hemispheres, north, south, east, and west.