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Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the purpose of a compass rose? | to help map readers compare the locations of different places |
| What would a map legend most likely contain? | Pictures representing places on the map |
| What is an example of a relative location? | Florence Alabama is northwest of Hoover |
| Trees and plants are forms of | vegetation |
| Plains and mountains are examples of | landforms |
| A group of places that share the same characteristics | regions |
| The hemispheres are geographical divisions of the world created by | the equator and prime meridian |
| What is the purpose of the prime meridian? | to establish a fixed point for determining east and west longitudes |
| Why is it that geographers use map projections? | Geographers study different map projections because area and shape are distorted on all maps |
| What is relative location? | where one place is in relation to another |
| Which continents are in the Western Hemisphere? | North and South America |
| Why is every map wrong in some way? | because of map distortion |
| What do geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth? | grid lines |
| Longitude lines run where? | from the North Pole to the South Pole |
| What is the purpose of map scale? | to compare distance on a map with the amount of distance on Earth |
| What do geographers use to look at direction on a map? | a compass rose |
| What line is 0 degrees longitude? | prime meridian |
| What is the point of a map legend? | to tell what the symbols on the map represent |
| If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? | winter |
| What are north, south, east, and west on a map? | cardinal directions |
| What is the purpose of the map title? | tells what the map is about |
| What aspect of the map gives information about what is in the map? | map key or legend |
| latitude runs in which direction? | east to west |
| What line is a zero degrees latitude? | equator |
| How are latitude and longitude lines measured? | with degrees |
| Where is the tropical zone? | the area between the tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn |
| What type of map shows where people live? | a population density map |
| Which refers to weather over a long period of time? | climate |
| What type of map show landforms? | physical features |
| what is a region? | an area with distinguishing characteristics |
| latitude and longitude are used to find what? | absolute location |
| Map Title | tells the subject of the map |
| compass rose | shows cardinal directions |
| Map key or legend | tells what the symbols are for |
| Grid lines | These show the location of places on a map. Global grid lines (latitude and longitude) show absolute location of places. |
| Map Scale | It shows how distances on a map compare to distances on Earth. |
| know how to find latitude and longitude | |
| primary source | A source that is actually from a previous time period |
| secondary source | A source that was created after an event took place |
| time and place rule | the closer in time and place a source is created to the actual event the more accurate the source is likely to be |
| What is a decade? | 10 years |
| What is a century? | 100 years |
| How do historians organize blocks of time? | into periods or eras |
| cause | what makes an event happen |
| effect | an event that happens as a result of the cause |
| What is a multilevel timeline? | a timeline showing what happened in multiple places within the same year |
| what is chronology? | the order of dates in which events happen |
| What is a timeline? | a diagram that shows the order of events |
Created by:
hmward