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Maps 1

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What are lines that run from right to left or left to right on a map? latitude lines
What is another name for lines of latitude? parallel lines
What is the imaginary line the divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? equator
What is the imaginary line that divides the Western and Eastern Hemispheres? Prime Meridian
What two hemispheres does the equator divide the Earth? Northern & Southern Hemisphere.
What two hemispheres does the prime meridian divide the Earth? Western & Eastern Hemisphere
What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude? Tropic of Cancer
What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees South Latitude? Tropic of Capricorn
What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude? Arctic Circle
What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees South Latitude? Antarctic Circle
What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 23.5 degrees South Latitude? tropical zone
What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 66.5 degrees North Latitude? temperate zone
What zone is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude and 90 degrees North Latitude? frigid zone
What is the imaginary line between the North and South Pole? axis
What map show cities, states, and countries using different types of colors that represent them? political map
What map show landforms, bodies of waters, and elevations of different places? physical map
Sometimes known as a "Legend", it show the map symbols in a map? key
What in a map, shows the distance between areas? scale
What is use as a pointer that show the north, south, west, or east location in a map? compass rose
What are lines on a map that run up and down or down and up? longitude lines
What is another name for a line of longitude? meridian
What is a map that has both latitude and longitude lines on a map? global grid
What are known as halves of the Earth? hemisphere
What is another name for the frigid zone? Polar Zone or Polar Region
What type of graph or chart is made up bars to describe information? Bar Chart
What type of graph shows line changes over a period of time? Line Chart
What is known as a “pie charts” and shows how the whole of something can be divided into parts? Circle Chart
These charts are good for making comparisons uses rows of pictures presenting an amount, what type are they? Pictograph Chart
Which kind of map shows elevation lines on a map? Contour Map
What kind of map presents information that is weather or climate? Special Purpose Map
What kind of map shows direction and land shapes not located near the Equator? Mercator Map
What shows continents close the their true shapes and sizes? Goode’s Area Map
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