Measuring Distance
What are drawings of pictures that show a specific place, area, or geographic feature on Earth.
What lines run from East to West?
Latitude
What do some maps use instead of the latitude/longitude coordinate system?
Letter and Number Grid System
Who was the first person to sail around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Physical Maps
The table/chart that tells you what parts of a map mean is called the _____.
Key
What lines run from North to South?
Longitude
________ of Latitude and Longitude are units of ______, not _____.
Minutes of latitude and longitude are units of space, not time.
The continental United States is broke into four time zones. What are they?
Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
What are two examples of Physical maps?
Mountains and Valleys
What is a measuring tool that shoes how distances on a map relate to distance on the ground?
Scale
What line divides the Earth into hemispheres?
Equator
Where do we live?
Pueblo West, Colorado
How many total time zones are in the world?
24
What is the height of something?
Elevation
The symbol that shows the directions: _____, _____, _____, and _____ is called a compass rose.
North, South, East, and West
How many hemispheres are there?
Two, Northern and Southern
Where would you look for the Eiffel Tower?
What time zone do you live in?
Mountain Time Zone
What are things that can be seen on a map?
Land, Oceans, Roads, Compass Rose, Scale
Explain the directions North, South, East, and West.
North ^
South V
East >
West <
What is the invisible line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole?
Prime Meridian
What is the cross point of latitude and longitude?
Coordinates
Traveling through time zones does what to the time?
Move time forward or backward by an hour.
Why would you use a map?
To find directions