Map Basic
Plan view or blueprints
What are examples of a map view?
The process of collecting information about an area without coming into physical contact with it.
What is remote sensing?
The periodic rise and fall of the oceans surfaces caused by the gravitational force between Earth and the Moon and the Sun.
What are tides?
The order of the planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars- Inner
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune- Outer
Small, rocky particles that move through space.
What is a meteoroid?
Written scale, ratio or graphic scale
How do we represent a map scale?
Shows the detailed shapes of Earth’s surface, along with its natural and human-made features.
What is a Topographic map?
The Sun, Earth and Moon
What are the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun during a lunar eclipse?
Difference between a day and a year.
What is a rotation-The spin of an object around its axis, and revolution-The orbit of an object around another object.
Most elements we see and find in our body systems came from stars combustions. It is not created or destroyed, but recycled.
What is recycled matter?
Distance in degree east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What are Longitude lines?
Elevation, relief, contour lines, contour interval.
The four main parts of a topographic map
Due to the Earth and Moon being inline with the Sun
What causes spring and neap tides?
Occurs when Earth’s rotation axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun.
What is an equinox?
large sphere of hydrogen gas hot enough for nuclear reactions to occur in its core.
What is a star?
East to West
What direction does the Equator run?
Show the surface geology of the mapped area. Examples: Rock type or age, and location of faults.
What is a geologic map?
As the lit portion of the Moon becomes larger
What is waxing?
The Earth is facing towards the sun certain seasons occur.
What is summer in the Northern hemisphere and winter in the Southern hemisphere
Rocks, stars, planets, solar system, galaxies, superclusters, sheet like walls
How is the Universe structured?
line of longitude 180 degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
What is the International Date Line?
Combine data collected to store information such as: road maps, land-usage maps, elevation maps and areas mapped.
What is GIS (Geographic Informational System)?
Phases of the moon in order.
What are New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
It makes Earth so unique.
What is sustaining life?
Types of galaxies
Elliptical, spiral and irregular.