maps skills
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| globe | a model of the earth that shows the earth's shape, lands, distances, and directions.
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| hemisphere | divides the earth into halves the northern and southern, eastern and western
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| latitude | are stacked rings north and south of the equator measured by parallels
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| longitude | are locations eat or west of the prime meridian measured by meridian
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| grid system | locate places on the earth, goegrapher's use a system of imaginary lines that crisscross
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| absolute location | by naming the latitude and longitude lines that cross exactly at the place
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| great cricle route | an imaginary line that follows the curve of the earth
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| projections | ways of showing the earth on a flat piece of paper
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| map key | explains the lines, symbols, and colors used on a map.
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| cardinal directions | a map has a symbol north, south, east, and west
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| scale | a tool to measure the length on a map
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| geographic information system (GIS) | system designed to present all types of geograhical data
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| intermediate directions | northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest
the 4 points half way between cardinal directions
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