Measurement of The Earth
What does a compass do?
It tells you which direction you're going.
Prime meridian is?
A arbitrarily-chosen meridian in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.
What is an archipelago?
A group of islands.
Small piece of land.
What is an island?
What are lines of latitude?
Imaginary lines that divide the earth.
Scale is?
The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground.
A bay is?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
Port for ships.
What is a Harbor?
What are lines of longitude?
Imaginary lines that divide the earth.
Distortion is?
The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth.
A canal is?
Artificial waterways
Body of water.
What is a lake?
What is the equator?
Line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
Key is?
A list of symbols that appear on the map.
Landform shaped like a triangle.
What is a Delta?
Narrow strip of land.
What is a isthmus?
What are degrees (in geography)?
A unit of angular measure represented by the symbol.
A cape is?
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
Long narrow sea.
What is a fjord?
Sea in Scotland.
What is a Loch?