Lines on the Earth
Topography
What mapping system would you use?
Riddles
Mapping Knowledge
100

This line divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Equator

100

What is the word for height/depth of a landform?

Elevation & Relief

100

To find the exact degrees a city's location in the world

Physical (Regular) Map

100

What is yours but used mostly by others?

Your name

100

Which dividing line on earth is vertical?

Prime Meridian

200

This line divides earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

Prime Meridian

200

Height of a landform is relative to what location?

Sea Level

200

To discover the elevation of a landform

Topographic/Contour Map

200

What two things can you never eat for dinner?

Breakfast and Lunch

200

Which dividing line on earth is horizontal?

Equator

300

What is Cartography?

The study of Maps/Mapmaking

300

What are Contour Intervals?

The difference between lines of elevation on a topographic map

300

To find exactly where you are on earth, while walking or driving

GPS (Global Positioning System)

300

What's a question you can never answer yes to?

"Are you asleep?"

300

True/False: Latitude Lines are measure from left to right?

False

400

What does the International Date Line do?

It allows us to determine time zones, and the start of one day/end of the day before

400

Why are Topographic Maps useful and important?

They allow us to represent 3-D landforms on 2-D maps/papers
400

To find an underwater object or size of an underwater object

Sonar Mapping

400

What's something that the more you take. the more you leave behind?

Footsteps

400

What is the distance between each degree of parallel in the world map?

111km

500

A drawing of the shape connecting equal parts of elevation of a landform

Contour Lines

500

A map where the contour lines are higher on the outside than they are on the inside represents a...

Depression, Pit, Valley

Any landform that sinks towards its center

500

To find the location of something in the world of Dora the Explorer

"The Talking Map"

500

A rooster is on a roof facing West. If it lays an egg which way does it roll? North, South, East or West?

Roosters don't lay eggs

500

What city does the International Date Line pass through?

Greenwich, England