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Map Skills Vocab
Social Studies - Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of Earth and its people, places and environments? | geography |
| What is the line of latitude that separates the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | Equator |
| The imaginary lines that run north and south, but are measured east and west of the Prime Meridian are called what? | longitude lines |
| What is the exact location of a place called? This often use latitude and longitude coordinates or an exact address. | absolute location |
| The imaginary horizontal lines that run parallel across the earth, and are measured in degrees north and south of the Equator are called what? | latitude lines |
| The location of one place compared to another place is called what? This often uses cardinal directions (N,E,S,W) | relative location |
| These are used to represent the round Earth on a flat map. | Map projections |
| This is the starting point for measuring longitude. It is the most important line of longitude that separates the earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres. | Prime Meridian |
| This is one half of the Earth. | hemisphere |
| This shows more specialized information than a globe- such as land use, population, elevation or rainfall. | thematic map |
| What shows the relationship between distances on the map and on Earth? | a map scale |
| This is the average weather in a place over a long period of time. | climate |
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