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Aligned to the Map Skills Section of our S.S. text: Eastern Hemisphere.
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1
Maps contain grids called latitude and longitude lines that help show _________.
Contour Lines
Location
Land Sizes
Elevation
2
What dothe letters A.D. stand for?
After Domini
Anno Domini
After Death
Before Common Era
3
What instrument is used to measure how far a person has traveled?
Odometer
Pace Maker
Speedometer
Compass
4
What to we call a period of 10 years?
Circa
Decade
Century
Millennium
5
What is the strip of land that connects two continents called?
Subcontinent
Peninsula
Isthmus
Island
6
What is the imaginary line that circles the earth halfway between the poles?
Equator
International Date Line
Tropic of Cancer
Prime Meridian
7
What is a timeline used to show?
When Baseball was Invented
Altitude
International Date Line
Order of Events
8
What are people who make maps called?
Cartographers
Geologists
Scientists
Orthodontists
9
What did map makers use to draw a spherical earth on a flat surface?
Globes
Compass
Lines of Longitude
Different Projections
10
What shape is the earth?
Oval
Round
Circle
Sphere
11
The lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Latitude
Longitude
Contour Lines
Tropic of Capricorn
12
What do maps have to show the relationship between map distance and real distance?
Scale
Compass
Key
Contour Lines
13
In one word, what is the problem with the type of map developed by Mercator?
Elevation
Distortion
Projections
Altitude
14
What do geographers call the lines on a map that run parallel to the Equator?
Longitude
Latitude
Equator
Polar Lines
15
What do contour lines on a map show?
Precipitation
Elevation
Population
Climate
16
What does the earth rotate on?
Path
Evolution
Ellipse
Axis
17
Seasons are caused by the earth’s tilt and _______.
Rotation
Axis
Revolution
Speed
18
What is the average number of people living in one area called?
Circa Population
Crowd Control
Elevation
Population Density
19
What do we call a period of 100 years?
Millennium
Circa
Decade
Century
20
A Greek scholar and geography book writer.
Aristotle
Albert Einstein
Claudius Ptolemy
Mercator
21
What is the moisture that falls to Earth’s surface in the form of rain,sleet, snow, or hail?
Climate
Precipitation
Moisture
Storm
