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Where a place is compared to another place
What is relative location
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 geographers use to indicate absolute location on 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?
The tilt of Earth's axis toward the sun causes this.
What is the changing of the seasons?
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?
This map projection is the best for showing accurate area.
What is the Eckert IV?
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?
The name for when the Sun shines directly on the Equator.
What is Equinox?
When is is spring in Michigan, it is this season in Australia.
What is fall?
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?
This map projection shows the areas around the North or South Poles with less distortion of other maps.
What is the Lambert Projection?
The area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
What is a temperate zone?
These are the months that the sun shines straight down on the equator.
What is March and September?