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This is a continent in the western hemisphere that lies mostly south of the equator.
What is South America?
100
This is the ocean that is farthest north on a map or globe.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
100
This box usually contains symbols and map information.
What is a map key?
100
Map scale says "1 inch=400 miles." How many miles would be shown by a distance of 2 1/2 inches?
What is 1,000 miles?
100
This line of latitude lies at 0 degrees and splits the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
This is the most populated content.
What is Asia?
200
This is the ocean that lies between the western shore of Europe and the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This shows you how to find distances on a map and helps you find the actual distances between places.
What is a map scale?
200
Map scale says "1 inch= 750 miles." How many miles are represented by a distance of 3 inches?
What is 2,250 miles?
200
This is one reason maps can look different from one another.
What is that it is difficult to represent a 3-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional surface? or What are people's different perspectives?
300
This continent contains the countries of Canada and Mexico.
What is North America?
300
This is the world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This the type of map projection that shows South America and Africa elongated or stretched out, while Europe and Greenland look smaller.
What is the Robinson projection?
300
Map scale says " 5 cm= 325 miles." How many miles are represented by 20 cm?
What is 1,300 miles?
300
This is another word for a map key.
What is a legend?
400
This large continent is home to the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
400
This ocean lies closest to the South Pole?
What is the Southern Ocean?
400
This is a 3-dimensional version of a map, intended to show the actual shape of the earth.
What is a globe?
400
Map makers use a map scale for this reason.
What is that real distance is too far and maps need to represent distances between locations?
400
This line of longitude lies at 0 degrees and runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian?
500
These are the only 2 continents that lie completely south of the equator.
What are Antarctica and Australia?
500
This is the ocean that is surrounded on 3 sides by the continents of Africa, Asia, and Australia?
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
These grid lines on a map divide the earth both horizontally and vertically.
What are latitude and longitude?
500
Map scale says "2 cm=100 miles." How many miles are represented by 4.5cm?
What is 225 miles?
500
These are known as the ______ of Capricorn and the ____ of Cancer. They lie at 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
What are the tropics?
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