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6th-Geography Skills
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Question | Answer |
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Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian | Longitude |
The distance north or south of the Equator | Latitude |
One of the halves of the Earth | Hemisphere |
One of the Earth's seven large bodies of land | Continent |
An imaginary line dividing the Earth into Northern and southern hemisphere | Equator |
The four parts of the Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, West |
The four parts of the Intermediate Directions | Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest |
Define Scale. | A unit of measure on a map |
A drawing that shows direction | Compass Rose |
Define Locator | A small map that shows where the subject area of the main map is located |
The line of longitude marked at 0 degrees | Prime Meridian |
Define Symbols. | Anything that stands for something else |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-Flat | Map |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH- 3-D model | Globe |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-shows accurate size,shape, and distances all at the same time | Globe |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-distortion problems | Map |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-Has political and physical features | Both |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-Has a compass rose | Both |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH-Is the best representation of the Earth | Globe |
MAP, GLOBE, or BOTH- portable | Map |