Lines of latitude are parallel to what line that divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
What is the equator?
100
Geographers divide Earth into halves. Name them.
What are the northern, southern, eastern, and western hemispheres?
100
All the plants and trees in a given area.
What is vegetation?
100
Give at least 2 examples of landforms.
mountains, canyons, hills, rivers,
200
The location of one place compared to another.
What is relative location?
200
Lines of longitude divide the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres. Which meridian is located at zero degrees?
What is the prime meridian?
200
A map that shows a particular theme or topic.
What is a thematic map?
200
What does an economic resource map show?
It shows what resources are used to make a living.
300
The change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.
What is distortion?
300
The numbers of where the line of latitude and longitude used to describe the absolute location anywhere on Earth.
What are the geographic coordinates.
300
It tells you how the distances on the map compare to the actual distances on Earth.
What is scale?
300
What is shown on a climagraph?
The climate zones of an area.
300
The number of people who live an a unit of area.
What is population density?
400
A system of imaginary lines used to divide up space on maps.
What is a map grid?
400
What direction do lines of latitude run in and why are they also called parallels?
They run east and west around the globe and never touch, so they are also called parallels.
400
Explain the difference between Earth's rotation and revolution.
A rotation is when the Earth spins around one its axis and a revolution is when the Earth travels around the sun.
400
A pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
What re the 7 regions of the world?
Canada & US, Latin America, Africa, Europe & Russia, SW & Central Asia, Monsoon Adia & Oceania Antarctica
500
Parallels and meridians are used to make up two sets of imaginary lines. What kind of system is this and what are the other names used to reference parallels and meridians?
What is the global grid system? Parallels are also lines of latitude and meridians are also called lines of longitude.
500
The next most important meridian to the prime meridian runs through the Pacific Ocean exactly halfway around the world from the prime meridian. When travelers cross the line, they cross over to a different day.
What is the International Date Line.
500
Explain why we have seasons.
The Earth is tilted at 23 1/2 degrees. Because of this tilt, the northern and southern hemispheres receive different amounts of sunlight as Earth moves around the sun. These differences create Earth's seasons.
500
Name four types of thematic maps.
climate, population density, economic activity, political, vegetation, physical feature