Understanding Maps
Reading Maps
Plotting Locations
Time Zones
Miscellaneous
100
A model of the Earth
What is a map?
100
What is the distance north or south of the prime meridian?
Latitude
100
Which is stated first? longitude or latitude
latitude
100
What is an area on Earth's surface between two meridians where people use the same time?
Time Zone
100
What is 0 degrees longitude?
The prime meridian.
200
What is a map view?
A map drawn as if you were looking down on an area from above Earth's surface.
200
What is the degrees east or west of the prime meridian?
Longitude
200
Latitude and Longitude can be divided into how many seconds?
60
200
How many time zones are there?
24
200
what is one way to transfer features from a globe to a flat map is to make a _________
projection
300
What is a profile view?
Is a map that shows an object as though you were looking at it from the side.
300
What divides the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere?
The equator.
300
How do you say 20° N, 155° W?
Twenty degrees north latitude, one hundred fifty five degrees west longitude.
300
What is the starting point for time zones?
prime meridian
300
Where is a cylindrical projection the most accurate?
Shapes near the equator
400
What is a key that lists all the symbols used on the map?
A map legend.
400
What divides the earth into east and west?
The prime meridian.
400
How do you say 0° , 0° ?
zero degrees latitude, zero degrees longitude.
400
The line of longitude 180° east or west of the prime meridian is called?
The international date line
400
Where a conical projections the most accurate?
Where the cone comes in contact with lines of latitude
500
What is the relationship between a distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground.
Map scale
500
What is 0 degrees latitude?
The equator
500
What is the latitude of the north pole?
90 degrees latitude.
500
What is the width of each time zone?
15 degrees
500
How are cylindrical and conical projections the same?
They are both projections
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