The Zones
These zones receive little direct sunlight and are cold most of the year.
What are polar zones?
Our world moves at this speed.
What is 67,000 miles per hour?
The spinning motion of Earth.
What is rotation?
It is June 30 in Tokyo, Japan. The season is
What is summer?
This map projection shows directions between places accurately near the equator. But it distorts the size of continents, especially near the North and South poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
These zones receive a lot of sunshine and are hot all year round.
What are tropic zones?
This is how long one revolution takes.
What is 365 1/4 days?
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of Earth.
What is the axis?
It is March 30 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The season is
What is Spring?
Geographers often use these map projections to show the number of people in different areas.
What are Eckert IV projections?
Generally, in these zones summers are warm and winters are cool.
What are temperate zones?
This is how long one full rotation of the earth takes.
What is 24 hours?
One round trip around the Earth.
What is a revolution?
It is September 30 in Quebec City, Canada. The season is
What is fall?
This projection uses a trick to help us see how the continents compare in size. It snips bits out of the oceans.
What is Goode’s Homolosine projection?
The northern line of the tropic zone.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The sun doesn't shine in a polar zone this many day(s) in a year.
What is one day?
The imaginary line of latitude that goes through the middle of earth.
What is the equator?
It is December 30 in London, England. The season is...
What is Winter?
This map projection is a circular map. It shows size accurately at its center, but not distance or shape.
What is a Lambert projection?
The southern line of the polar zone.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
This is the number of zones in total.
What is six?
The farthest north point where the sun doesn’t shine at all on one day each year.
What is the Arctic Circle?
It is June 10 in South Africa. The season is
What is winter?
It is a popular projection because it balances the distortions of size and shape, resulting in a fairly accurate picture of the world.
What is a Robinson projection?