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Maps 1
Question | Answer |
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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 |