Latitude and longitude
The position north or south of the equator
What is latitude
An imaginary line between north and south poles that tilts relatively to its orbit
What is earths axis
This layer is the thinnest layer of earth
What is the crust
The ____ tells you the subject of the map
What is the title
A process that breaks rocks down into tiny pieces
What is weathering
the position east and west of the prime meridian
What is longitude
A point in which everything on earth, days and night are nearly equal in length
what is Equinox
This layer of the earth will reach temperatures up to 3,300 degrees.
What is the mantle
A ___ _____ ____ shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on earth.
What is a maps scale bar
A process in which water, ice and wind remove small pieces of rock and moves them somewhere else
What is erosion
latitude and longitude form a ____ _____
What is a global grid
A point in which days are longer in one hemisphere and shorter in another
What is solstice
A sphere of very hot metal at the center of the earth
What is the core
A network of 24 satellites used to pinpoint locations of earth.
What is GPS
In this type of weathering, moving water, ice or sometimes wind can break the rock into smaller pieces
What is Mechanical Weathering
The directions that lie in between the cardinal directions
What are intermediate directions
An imaginary line between north and south poles that tilts relatively to its orbit
What is earths axis
only about _____ percent of earth is made up of land
What is 29 percent
This map shows the physical or natural features of a place
What is a physical map
In this type of weathering, rain water or acids carried by rainwater dissolves rocks
What is chemical weathering
The equator divides earth in half. Each half is called a _______
What is a hemisphere
This solstice is when the south pole is pointed closest to the sun
December Solstice
only a tiny ____ of earths water is unfrozen fresh water.
What is portion
The ______ projection shows correct shapes and directions but not true distances and sizes.
What is a Mercator projection
soil is required to ______ plant and animal life and for agriculture.
What is sustain