Mapping Earth's Surface
A representation of the features of a physical body.
What is a map?
A tool used to measure length.
What is a meter stick?
The three types of models.
What is physical, mathematical, and computer?
Used to show elevation.
What is a contour line?
Points to magnetic north.
What is a compass?
A tool used to measure mass.
What is a balance?
True or false: A model can't change.
What is false?
The difference in elevation between one contour line and the next.
What is a contour interval?
The distance east or west from the prime meridian; expressed in degrees.
What is longitude?
Almost every country around the world use this system of units.
What is the metric system?
A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a lot of evidence.
What is a theory?
The variations in elevations of a land surface
What is relief?
The distance north or south from the equator; expressed in degrees.
What is latitude?
The item used in England to measure inches.
What is grains of barley?
A descriptive statement or equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions.
What is a law?
The line of longitude that runs mostly at 180°. Marks when a new day starts.
What is the International Date Line?