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Maps 1

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What are lines that run from right to left or left to right on a map?   latitude lines  
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What is another name for lines of latitude?   parallel lines  
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What is the imaginary line the divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?   equator  
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What is the imaginary line that divides the Western and Eastern Hemispheres?   Prime Meridian  
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What two hemispheres does the equator divide the Earth?   Northern & Southern Hemisphere.  
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What two hemispheres does the prime meridian divide the Earth?   Western & Eastern Hemisphere  
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What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude?   Tropic of Cancer  
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What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees South Latitude?   Tropic of Capricorn  
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What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude?   Arctic Circle  
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What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees South Latitude?   Antarctic Circle  
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What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 23.5 degrees South Latitude?   tropical zone  
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What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 66.5 degrees North Latitude?   temperate zone  
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What zone is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude and 90 degrees North Latitude?   frigid zone  
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What is the imaginary line between the North and South Pole?   axis  
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What map show cities, states, and countries using different types of colors that represent them?   political map  
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What map show landforms, bodies of waters, and elevations of different places?   physical map  
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Sometimes known as a "Legend", it show the map symbols in a map?   key  
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What in a map, shows the distance between areas?   scale  
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What is use as a pointer that show the north, south, west, or east location in a map?   compass rose  
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What are lines on a map that run up and down or down and up?   longitude lines  
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What is another name for a line of longitude?   meridian  
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What is a map that has both latitude and longitude lines on a map?   global grid  
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What are known as halves of the Earth?   hemisphere  
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What is another name for the frigid zone?   Polar Zone or Polar Region  
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What type of graph or chart is made up bars to describe information?   Bar Chart  
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What type of graph shows line changes over a period of time?   Line Chart  
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What is known as a “pie charts” and shows how the whole of something can be divided into parts?   Circle Chart  
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These charts are good for making comparisons uses rows of pictures presenting an amount, what type are they?   Pictograph Chart  
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Which kind of map shows elevation lines on a map?   Contour Map  
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What kind of map presents information that is weather or climate?   Special Purpose Map  
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What kind of map shows direction and land shapes not located near the Equator?   Mercator Map  
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What shows continents close the their true shapes and sizes?   Goode’s Area Map  
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