Direction and Distance
Latitude and Longitude
Time Zones
Types of Maps
Anything Goes
100
north, south, east, and west
What are the cardinal directions?
100
Another name for latitude lines.
What are parallels?
100
Number of time zones in the continental United States.
What is four?
100
Shows how humans have divided the surface of the earth into countries and states.
What is a political map?
100
One half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
200
Maps are drawn so that a certain distance on the map represents a much larger distance on the earth.
What is a scale?
200
Another name for longitude lines.
What are meridians?
200
Name the time zones.
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
200
A map that emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information about an area.
What is a special-purpose map?
200
It takes the earth this long to rotate on its axis once.
What is 24 hours?
300
northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest
What are intermediate directions?
300
Divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300
Distance between each time zone.
What is about 1,000 miles?
300
True or False. Many times maps will be a combination of physical, political, and special-purpose.
What is true?
300
1/2 inch equals 300 miles. Number of miles in 4.5 inches.
What is 2,700 miles?
400
1 inch equals 500 miles. What 2.5 inches equals.
What is 1,250 miles?
400
The four quadrants of the world.
What are northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast?
400
As you move east, time becomes what in the day.
What is later in the day?
400
True or False. Political maps change as political relationships shift.
What is true?
400
Name the 5 oceans.
What are Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Southern Ocean?
500
The direction one would travel from Europe to Australia. Then Australia to Brazil.
What is southeast and west.
500
Through international agreement, this city and country, was chosen as the starting point for measuring longitude?
What is Greenwich, England?
500
You have to fly from Los Angeles to Boston. You leave Los Angeles at 10:00pm. Time in Boston is this.
What is 1:00am?
500
Give three examples of a special purpose map.
What is (answers will vary)? Climate, population, natural disasters, time zones, economic activity, natural resources.....
500
Name often used to describe the 2 continents that are not separated by an ocean.
What is Eurasia?
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