The Geographic Setting
Map Titles and Symbols
Longitude and Latitude
Miscellaneous
100
The precise point on Earth where a particular place can be found is called its
What is absolute location?
100
What is the purpose of the compass rose?
What is show directions on a map?
100
Which of the following run east and west around the globe?
International Date Line
meridians of longitude
parallels of latitude
prime meridian
What is parallels of latitude?
100
What does the map scale tell you?
how many miles are represented by an inch on the map
how many kilometers are represented by a centimeter on the map
how to read the distances on a map
all of the above
What is all of the above?
200
You invite a friend to play basketball at a park. You tell him the park is two blocks north of the school. You have just described the park’s
What is relative location?
200
Which of the following is an intermediate direction?
north
compass rose
southwest
latitude
What is southwest?
200
The line that marks 0° longitude is the
equator.
International Date Line.
prime meridian.
Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the prime meridian?
200
South America fits entirely within the
Eastern Hemisphere.
Western Hemisphere.
Northern Hemisphere.
Southern Hemisphere.
What is the western hemisphere?
300
What is the main problem with showing a spherical Earth on a flat map?
What is distortion?
300
A synonym for map legend is map
guide.
grid.
translator.
key.
What is a key?
300
Which of the following tell you exactly where a place is located?
geographic coordinates
cardinal directions
parallel of latitude
meridian of longitude
What are geographic coordinates?
300
This type of map shows the boundaries of countries, states, provinces, counties, and cities.
What is a political map?
400
A mountain is a natural characteristic of Earth’s surface and also known as a
hemisphere
physical feature
distance scale
diagram
What is a physical feature?
400
A map grid
indicates cardinal and intermediate directions on a map.
helps you find specific locations on a map by means of a code.
explains the symbols that are used on the map.
describes the area shown on the map and identifies the map’s topic.
What is helps you find specific locations on a map by means of a code?
400
The imaginary set of lines between North and South poles that cross the equator at right angles
What are the meridians of longitude?
400
This map shows natural features of a place or country, like rivers, mountains, forests and lakes.
What is a physical map?
500
Crossing which longitude line/meridian would allow you to immediately switch days?
What is the International Date Line?
500
Since maps are drawings of large places, we need to draw them smaller than they really are. The drawing uses a _______________ to show the actual distance between places.
What is a scale?
500
On the map you can use these (42.54° N, 71.29°W ) to find the absolute (exact) location of Billerica.
What are coordinates?
500
This map would help me locate Billerica, Massachusetts.
What is a political map?