Found at 23 degrees N/S Latitude
What are the Tropics of Cancer.
These two characteristics on maps were not accurate.
What are features and relationships?
GPS stands for
What is global positioning system?
Number of time zones
What is 24?
Center of early maps
What is Jerusalem?
These two lines make up the global grid system
What are longitude and latitude?
Early maps showed 3 main areas.
What are hunting grounds, cities, and trade routes?
Number of satellites that make up the GPS System.
What is 31?
15 degrees
What is the width of a time zone?
Age of the oldest maps
5000 years
Location where prime meridian runs.
What is Greenwich, England?
This civilization mapped on clay tablets.
Who are the Babylonians?
Tilt of the Earth
What is 23.5 degrees?
Place where one day turns to another
What is the International Date Line?
First two groups of people who moved map making forward
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
Math discipline used to make grid system of mapping.
What is Geometry?
Country that mapped on silk.
What is China?
Location of 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
Number of time zones in China
What is 5?
Time period where map making really improved
What is the Renaissance?
Horizontal lines of the global grid system
What are parallels?
Early mapping Lacked rules on this
What is orientation?
Latitude was created through
Number of U.S. time zones
What is 6?
This revolutionized map making
What is the printing press?