6S study cards Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A picture on a map showing the cardinal direction | Compass Rose |
The difference between the distance in real life | Scale |
A marking that represents something | Symbol |
Something that decodes a figure | Key |
A person that makes maps | Cartographer |
A series of horizontal and vertical lines | Grid |
Estimation of a unknown value | Interpolation |
Measures the distance north and south of the equator | Latitude |
Distance from east to west from the prime meridian | Longitude |
Lines Extending in the same direction that never intersects and goes on forever. | Parallel |
Great circle of earth’s passing | Meridian |
Twisting out of shape | Distortion |
Shortest distance from 2 points on a round surface | Great Circle |
Drawing the round earth on a flat surface | Physical Map |
A cliff, slope or drop off into the sea | Fjord |
A part of the sea partially enclosed by land | Gulf |
Wide inlet of the sea or lake | Bay |
The continuous body of salt water | Sea |
The bed of a running stream or river | Channel |
A stream that flows | Stream |
Narrow waterway | Strait |
A natural stream of water | River |
Protected inlet of the sea | Harbor |
End of a river | mouth |
A spring that is a starting point of a stream | Source |
An artificial waterway | Canal |
Large, moving mass of ice | Glacier |
Going against the current toward the source | Upstream |
In the direction of the current stream toward the mouth | Downstream |
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