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What does a scale measure on a map?

Distance

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Shows Earth's surface as a sphere as if viewing from outer space.

Globe

100

Name the cardinal directions

North, South, East, West

100

An imaginary line of latitude dividing the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere.

Equator

100

True Or False...Two different days on Earth can be only 1 mile apart in distance.

True

200

What box has symbols that are used on the map?

Legend

200
What does a political map show?

country/state borders, city boundaries and names 

200

A professional mapmaker

Cartographer

200

An imaginary line of longitude dividing the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere.

Prime Meridian

200

Vertical lines that measure the earth from 0 - 180 degrees.

Lines of Longitude

300

What is this called? 

A scale

300

This type of map shows landforms like deserts, mountains, plains, rivers, and lakes.

Topographic maps

300

What is a way we can love others and exercise dominion with the use of maps?

Mapping out diseases to prevent spread, planning emergency response help, mapping out natural disaster areas (like earthquake zones)

300

How do you know what the map you are looking at represents?

The Title

300

Horizontal Lines that measure the earth from 0-90 degrees in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Lines of Latitude

400

What is one example of a GIS system?

Google Earth

400

A type of map that shows which states the presidential nominees won, areas that have disease outbreaks, or regions with earthquakes.

Thematic maps

400

GIS organizes data into _________ so we can add or remove information as we need.

layers

400

Give one of the three ways people as far back as before Jesus' time knew the Earth was a sphere.

Star locations changed at certain times of year
Ships disappeared at sea as they crossed the horizon
The earth's shadow on the moon was round during a lunar eclipse

400

The line that divides the Earth into two separate days

International Date Line

500

This term is used to describe a tilted view of a map that makes a distorted image

Oblique Map

500

The False cylindrical projection map that was designed specifically for classrooms in America.

The Robinson map

500

This map feature will help me locate places easily by using latitude and longitude lines.

coordinate grid

500

Name 2 of the 3 ways data is collected for GIS systems.

Remote Sensing, Acoustical Sensing, Surveying

500

What gives us a precise location on earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds?

Geographic Coordinates