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This is a round model of Earth.
What is a globe?
Two continents located entirely in the Western Hemisphere.
What is North America and South America
The changes in shape, size, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat map.
What is distortion
What do geographers use to indicate the exact location of any place on Earth?
What is a global grid?
Meridians of longitude are imaginary lines that run from this place to this place.
What is North Pole to the South Pole?
This is a flat representation of all or part of Earth.
What is a map?
This compares the distance on a map with the distance on Earth.
What is a map scale?
The parallel of latitude that is located north of the Tropic of Cancer. Hint: 661/2
What is the Arctic Circle?
This is located at 23 1/2 degrees south.
What is Tropic of Capricorn?
This ocean is north of Europe.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Which is more accurate for showing Earth’s true shape: a map or globe? →
What is a globe?
This is the reason that the Robinson Projection is a popular projection.
What is it balances the distortion of size and shape.
The Eastern and Western Hemispheres split here.
What is the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line?
Why can a flat world map never represent Earth perfectly?
Because converting a spherical Earth to a flat surface causes distortion.
city wants to decide where to build a new hospital. Name three GIS layers planners could combine.
population, roads, traffic, land use, elevation.
These run north-south and measure up to 180 degrees.
What is Lines of Longitude?
This ocean touches both Europe and South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These continent fits entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Antarctica and Australia?
The line is at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
This continent has no permanent human residents.
What is Antarctica?
These are the 4 intermediate directions.
What are northwest, southwest, southeast, northeast?
These are the 7 continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica?
A map showing mountains, rivers, deserts, and elevation is this type.
What is a physical map?
GIS is used to collect, organize, analyze, and display what type of information? →
Geographic/spatial information
Which map element explains what symbols and colors mean?
The legend/key.