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Map Skills Whitney
7th grade social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a globe? | A scale model of Earth. |
| What do you call a scale model of Earth? | A globe. |
| What is a grid that you find on a globe? | The pattern of lines that circle the globe in east-west and north-south directions. |
| What is latitude? | The east and west lines in the grid. |
| What are the lines that go east and west on a global grid? | Latitude |
| What is the equator? | An imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the north and south poles. |
| What is the imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the north and south poles? | The equator. |
| What are parallels? | Lines of latitude - they are always parallel to the equator. |
| What else are lines of latitude called? | Parallels |
| What are degrees? | Distance from the equator is measured into degrees. |
| What are minutes? | Degrees are further divided into minutes. |
| What are the north and south grid lines? | LONGitude. |
| What is longitude? | The north and south grid lines. |
| What is the prime meridian? | Imaginary line of LONGITUDE that runs through Greenwich England. |
| What is the imaginary line of longitude that runs through Greenwich England? | Prime Meridian |
| What are meridians? | Lines of 0 degree longitude |
| What are hemispheres? | The equator divides the globe into two halves called north/south hemispheres and the prime meridian divides into east/west hemispheres. |
| The equator divides the earth into what hemispheres? | North and South |
| What continent is in all 4 hemispheres? | Africa |
| What are continents? | The organization of our planet's land surface - 7 large land masses all identified as a continent. |
| What are the 7 large land masses on earth called? | Continents. |
| What are islands? | They are smaller than continents and completely surrounded by water. |
| What is an ocean? | Earth's larges water surface. |
| What is a map? | A flattened diagram of all or part of Earth's surface |
| What is a flattened diagram of all or part of Earth's surface? | A map. |
| What is a map projection? | Mapmakers have different ways of showing our round earth on flat maps and these different ways are called map projections. |
| What is the compass rose? | It has arrows that point to all four principal directions. |
| What is a map's scale? | It gives distances in miles and kilometers |
| What is a legend? | It explains what the symbols on the map represent. |
| What is another word for a map's legend? | KEY |
| What 3 elements should be on all maps? | 1/ directional indicators, 2/ scale and 3/ legends (keys) |
| Why do map makers use scales? | To represent distances between points on a map. |
| Legends or keys explain what? | What symbols on a map represent. |
| Why are climate maps used? | To show important weather patterns in certain regions. |
| What are things a population map can show? | How many people live in a region, how crowded or NOT crowded an area or region is, and symbols to show metropolitan areas with populations of a particular size. |
| Why is color used on a population map? | To represent a certain numer of people living in a a square mile or kilometer. |
| What do the symbols and colors on a land use and resource map represent? | Important resources of a region. |
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