PICTURES OF EARTH
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
TIME
MAPS
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The most accurate picture of the earth because it is round
What is a globe?
100
The main line of Latitude which divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
100
The main line of Longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
The earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours which we call this.
What is a day?
100
This is a picture of a part or all of the earth.
What is a map?
200
The most practical picture of the earth because it is portable and easy to use
What is a map?
200
Imaginary lines which run east and west and show distance north and south of the Equator
What is Latitude?
200
Because it passes through this suburb of London, England, the Prime Meridian is sometimes called this.
What is the Meridian of Greenwich?
200
The earth rotates 15 degrees from west to east in this amount of time
What is an hour?
200
Symbols on a map are explained in this part of a map.
What is the legend or key?
300
Different ways of showing the earth's surface on a map
What are map projections?
300
Because they never meet and are equidistant lines of Latitude are called by this name
What are parallels?
300
Lines of Longitude are called this
What are meridians?
300
There are this many time zones on the earth.
What are 24?
300
The directions on a map are shown in this part.
What is Compass Rose?
400
A cylindrical projection useful to navigators in which Greenland is larger than Australia
What is a Mercator projection?
400
The degree designation of the Equator
What is 0 degrees Latitude?
400
Lines of Longitude are not parallel or equidistant, and they meet at these locations.
What are the poles?
400
The United States has this many time zones.
What is six?
400
This part of the map tells us how distance is shown on the map.
What is the Scale?
500
The type of projection used to show the poles
What are Flat-plane Projections?
500
The degree designation of the North Pole and the South Pole
What is 90 degrees?
500
The other major line of Longitude is at 180 degrees and it is called this.
What is the International Date Line?
500
So that areas that share common needs and interests are not separated time zones may be this.
What is divided irregularly?
500
The intersection of the latidude and longitude of a place on a map is called this.
What is Absolute Location?
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