The study of everything on earth
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Reference Map | Shows the location of the geographic areas for which census data are tabulated and disseminated.
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| Thematic Map | A type of map especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area.
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| GPS | The Global Positioning System. A space based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in a ll weather conditions.
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| GIS | The Geographic information system. This is a computerized data management system used to capture, store, manage, retrieve, analyze, and display spatial information.
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| Distance Scale | The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.
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| Directional indicator | Is defined as the largest part of the current period price range which lies outside the previous period price range.
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| Inset Map | A small graphic representation as a picture on a map.
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| Legend | An essential part of the map, it explains what the symbols on the map mean and allows you to make sense of the map.
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| Latitude (parallel) | The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator.
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| Longitude (meridians) | The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian.
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| Equator | An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles.
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| Prime Meridian | The earth's zero of longitude
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| Northern Hempisphere | The northern hemisphere of earth is the half that is north of the equator.
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| Southern Hempisphere | The southern hemisphere of earth is the half which is south of the equator.
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| Eastern Hempisphere | The eastern hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of the earth that is east of prime meridian and west of 180 degrees longitude.
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| Western Hemisphere | The western hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of earth that lies west of the prime meridian and east of the Anti meridian.
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| Continents | Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land. (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America,South America).
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