Imaginary lines that appear on the globes and maps of the Earth
What are coordinates?
100
The relationship between a real object (i.e. the surface of the earth) and the representation of itself.
What is a scale?
100
Regions on Earth that have the same definition of time.
What are time zones?
100
The distance between any point on the Earth's surface and the Greenwich meridian.
What is longitude?
100
What happens when the Earth spins on an imaginary line called the axis.
What is a rotation?
200
The lines that go around the world and are parallel to the equator.
What are parallels?
200
In this scale, a fraction represents the ratio between the map and the real world
What is a fractional scale?
200
The imaginary line the Earth spins on.
What is the axis?
200
This period of time a revolution around the sun takes.
What is one year?
200
In order to determine the exact location of a person or place in the world, a system of localization was created.
What are the geographic coordinates?
300
The line that divides the Earth into two hemispheres (northern and southern hemispheres)
What is the Equator?
300
A map which shows a small territory in great detail
What is a large-scale map?
300
While the Earth rotates on the axis, it is also traveling around the sun.
What is a revolution?
300
France and Germany both use this time zone.
What is the central European time zone?
300
It is the largest parallel because it goes around the widest part of the Earth.
What is the Equator?
400
The lines that go north and south from pole to pole.
What are meridians?
400
This works the same way as the fractional scale. By measuring the distance between two points on a map, and then using the this scale you can know what the distance is in reality.
What is a graphic scale?
400
There are 24 of these.
What are time zones?
400
If you move in this direction, you have to move your watch forward?
What is East?
400
The tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn are examples of these.
What are parallels?
500
The distance between any point on the Earth's surface and the equator.
What is latitude?
500
A map that shows a large territory with less detail.
What is a small-scale map?
500
Spain is in this time zone.
What is the central European time zone?
500
If you move in this direction, you have to move your watch backwards.