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5th History Chap. 1
Vocab and Facts
Question | Answer |
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What is geography? | The study of place. |
What is history? | The study of the past. |
Who created the earth? | God |
What is a cartographer? | A person who makes maps. |
What is cartography? | The art of making maps. |
What is the imaginary line of longitude in the Pacific Ocean that marks the date change? | The International Date Line |
What does a Global Positioning System use to provide information on latitude, longitude, altitude, and the accurate time? | Satellites |
What is a basic tool for studying places on earth? | Map |
What is a geographer? | A person who studies the earth. |
How did early mapmakers discover land shapes? | By sailing and exploring around them |
What type of map represents the earth most correctly? | A globe |
What does a map key show? | What the symbols on a map represent |
What does a map scale do? | Compares the distance on a map to a distance in the real world |
What is a compass rose? | a small design that indicates directions on a map |
What does the Mercator Projection show? | land correctly along the equator |
What is the advantage of a flat map? | shows more details than a globe |
What does Goode's Interrupted Projection do? | shows fairly accurate shapes and sizes of landmasses |
What does a political map do? | shows the man-made boundaries around countries |
What is a historical map? | a map that shows information about a place as it was in the past |
What is a time zone? | a region that shares the same time |
What is the equator? | an imaginary line of latitude that wraps around the center of the earth |
What direction do lines of longitude run? | north and south |
What is another name for a line of longitude? | a meridian |
What is the prime meridian? | the meridian labeled zero degrees |
What are the seven continents? | North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antartica |