Vocabulary
One half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
North, East, South, and West
What are the cardinal directions?
Another name for longitude lines.
What are meridians?
Only a globe can show direction, distance, shape, and _______________ with accuracy at the same time.
What is size?
Each time zone is about ______________ miles when measured at the Equator.
What is 1,000?
The starting point of latitude. Divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Maps are drawn so that a certain distance on the map represents a much larger distance on the earth. This is called....
What is scale?
The global address, or coordinate, for the point where the Equator and the Prime Meridian meet.
What is 0°, 0°?
A way of showing the rounded earth on a flat piece of paper.
What is a map projection?
Number of time zones in the continental United States.
What is four?
These lines are also called parallels.
What are latitude lines?
The intermediate directions.
What are northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
Australia is located in these two hemispheres.
What are Southern and Eastern hemispheres?
This type of map emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information.
What is a special-purpose map?
Whenever you cross a time zone going east, the time becomes one hour ___________.
What is later?
Through international agreement, this city and country were chosen as the starting point for measuring longitude.
What is Greenwich, England?
If one inch equals 500 miles, this is what 3.5 inches equals.
What is 1,750 miles?
South America is located ______________ of Europe.
What is southwest?
This type of projection provides a balance between size and shape of land areas.
What is a Winkel Tripel projection?
The four time zones in the continental United States.
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
The type of projection where the landmasses near the North and South Poles are greatly exaggerated in size.
What is a Mercator projection?
If 3 inches equals 675 miles, then 1 inch equals this.
What is 225 miles?
Africa has the ________________ Ocean to its east and the _________________ Ocean to its west.
What are Indian and Atlantic?
On a Peters projection, the shapes of landmasses are __________________.
What is distorted?
Your flight leaves Boston at 5:00am. It takes 1 hour to fly to New York City. You have a 1 hour layover. Your next flight to San Francisco, CA takes 5.5 hours. What time is it when you land in San Francisco?
What is 9:30am?