Duplicate of BJU Earth Science Chapter 3

In comparison to a map of the US, a map showing the streets in your neighborhood would be a small-scale map

The geographic position 123.5 N 73.2 E is a valid set of coordinates

What is a geographic map?

What are cardinal directions?

The International Date Line follows the length of the 180 degree meridian

The arrow on maps points

All meridians are halves of great circles

Maps of the polar region often use __________ projection?

what type of lines on a map connect points of equal elevation?

The arrow on the map points to which direction?

what theory says God used the big bang theory to create the earth and created life since then

A map of the US that is shaded to show the range of the gray wolf and and the red wolf would be

a map that shows elevation and landform information usually indicated by contour lines

Where are you standing at 0 degrees latitude?

a degree of latitude is about the same length anywhere along what?

when a map projection's point touches somewhere between the equator and a pole.

Conic projections reduce the distortion of maps displaying the earth's surface in the middle latitudes

sonar is used in mapping the______ floor.

A map's north arrow must always point up on a map

Which is a map that displays certain kinds of related information to produce a unified theme?

What is the boxed area on a map where all of the symbols and colors used on the map are defined

Sailors needed an accurate clock before they could accurately determine longitude

Gnomonic projections are the best because they have no distortion

What measure of latitude or longitude is 60 nautical mile on the earth's surface at the equator

Which part of the map is often expressed as the ratio of two numbers?

What does the international date line pass through?

What is a person called who makes maps?

Maps used to navigate at sea are properly called charts

What type of map most accurately show the true shape of the continets?

Which of the following measures of latitude or longitude is about 60 nautical miles on earth's surface at Equator?

What is the highest possible number for longitude reading?

No map can show every detail of the earth's surface

Surveying is useful for mapping underwater canyons

You're in charge of creating the route for a new hiking trail through mountains, you should use

What is a political map?

a map with its point of contact in the center of North America would be an ______ projection.

The GIS line data type would best represent a road on a digital map

What indicated to many educated people that the earth was actually a sphere?