Map Skills
The____________can help you find the distance between two towns on a map
Map Scale
If you’re planning a trip, you might use _______________ because maps of different scale provide different information about places.
Two diffrent road maps
____________________crew found that their trip had taken one more day than their own careful records showed. This helps explain why today we have an international date line.
Ferdinand Magellan’s
As you move from a lower number of degrees of latitude to a higher number of degrees of latitude the temperature gets __________.
lower
A person might cross the international date line when he or she travels from the ________________________________________.
Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere
If a map’s scale shows that one inch on the map equals five miles in real life, ___________on the map would stand for ten miles
2 inches
In terms of maps and globes, there are _____________ in one degree.
60 minutes
Parallels of latitude are _____________ to each other.
parallel
If you and a friend both traveled north on different meridians of longitude from the South Pole, You would meet again at the _________________.
North Pole
Physical maps use __________________ to show differences in elevation.
lines of color
A map scale looks most like a __________.
ruler
The ‘ in 41°38’ N stands for ________________.
minutes
The imaginary line that runs around Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles is called the _____________________.
equator
Map coordinates let you __________________ on the map.
pinpoint a location
Mountains and valleys are shown on a _____________________.
physical map
On a map, the _______________ is the symbol with four arrows pointing in different directions.
compass rose
If you were in the Central Time Zone and your watch said 1:00 p.m., it would it be _______________ in the Eastern Time Zone
2:00 p.m
10° S latitude is__________________
south of the equator
When you cross the _______________________, the calendar shifts to a different day.
international date line
If you were reading a road map and you wanted to know which roads were interstate highways on the map, you would check the ________________.
map key
On a map or a globe, the term: parallels is for the lines that run from___________________
east to west
A ____________________would show the natural features of the land.
physical map
The small circle stand for in “90° S” stands for _____________
degrees
There are ___________________ on the globe.
24 time zones
____________ is an object or picture that stands for something else
symbol