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A symbol on a map that shows directions north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
100
The relationship or proportion between the distance as shown on a map and the actual distance on the ground.
What is a map scale?
100
The number of time zones that the United States lies within.
What are six time zones?
100
The United States is located in this hemisphere, to the side of the Prime Meridian.
What is the western hemisphere?
200
A table or chart that helps you decode a map; usually found in one of the corners of the map.
What is a map key?
200
The lines on a map or globe that run from east to west; measure degrees north and south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
200
The number of time zones that 48 out of the 50 states in the United States lie within.
What are four time zones?
200
The United States is located in this hemisphere, parallel to the equator.
What is the northern hemisphere?
300
0° longitude; the longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
Lines that run from north to south; measure degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
300
The International Date Line falls mainly on this line of longitude.
What is the 180° line of longitude?
300
The first person to circumnavigate (travel around) the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
An imaginary line that runs through a turning object.
What is an axis?
400
The line of latitude that separates earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
400
The Prime Meridian runs through this specific location.
What is Greenwich, England?
400
There are 24 of them across the entire earth.
What are time zones?
500
The imaginary line that marks the place on Earth where each new day begins.
What is the International Date Line?
500
The line of longitude that separates the earth into the western and eastern hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Colorado is in this specific time zone.
What is the Mountain Time Zone?
500
Ms. Hoehn's dog.
Who is Tally?