Mapping

Question 1

What shows all of the earth’s surfaces on a plane of flat surface?

Answer 1

Map

Question 2

Why must the image of the Earth on the map be distorted?

Answer 2

The surface must be distorted to lay flat

Question 3

How does the size of the area being mapped affect distortion?

Answer 3

The smaller the area the less the distortion

Question 4

What would the ideal map show?

Answer 4

Shapes, distances, and directions correctly

Question 5

What are projections that show the curved earth on flat surfaces?

Answer 5

Map projections

Question 6

How are north and south normally shown on a map?

Answer 6

North is on top and south is on the bottom

Question 7

How is the location on the Earth shown on the map?

Answer 7

By latitude and longitude

Question 8

What must all maps show in terms of latitude and longitude?

Answer 8

They must show the same latitude and longitude for a point on the earth’s surface

Question 9

What are lines that run east to west, but tells you north to south?

Answer 9

Latitude

Question 10

How is latitude measured?

Answer 10

Parallels

Question 11

What are imaginary lines that circle the earth east to west parallel to equator?

Answer 11

Parallels

Question 12

What is the latitude of the equator?

Answer 12

0

Question 13

What are the latitudes of the north and south poles?

Answer 13

90

Question 14

How many miles are in one degree of latitude?

Answer 14

70

Question 15

How many minutes are in a degree?

Answer 15

60

Question 16

How many miles are in a minute?

Answer 16

1.16

Question 17

What are lines that run north to south, but tell you east to west?

Answer 17

Longitude

Question 18

How is longitude measured?

Answer 18

Meridians

Question 19

What are half circles that run in the north and south direction from the north and south pole?

Answer 19

Meridians

Question 20

What is declared the starting line for the world longitudinal system?

Answer 20

Prime Meridian

Question 21

Where is the Prime Meridian found?

Answer 21

Greenwich, England, and Spain

Question 22

What is the longitude of the Prime Meridian?

Answer 22

0

Question 23

What is the furthest you can move right and left and explain why?

Answer 23

180 degrees because it is a half circle

Question 24

What tells how the map compares in size with the piece of earth that it shows?

Answer 24

Scale

Question 25

What is the distance on the map compared to the distance on earth?

Answer 25

Map scale

Question 26

List how a map scale can be shown

Answer 26

1. Verbally 2. Graphically 3. Numerically

Question 27

How can a map scale be shown graphically?

Answer 27

By a line divided into equal parts and marked into units of length

Question 28

How can a map scale be shown numerically?

Answer 28

Written as a fraction to show what part of a true distance the map distances really are

Question 29

How do you show land forms of the earth's surface on a map?

Answer 29

You must show the relief of the earth's surface

Question 30

What are the highs and lows of the earth?

Answer 30

Relief

Question 31

List how relief can be shown

Answer 31

1. Shading 2. Coloring 3. Sketching and land forms

Question 32

What are lines drawn to connect points at the same level above sea level?

Answer 32

Contour lines

Question 33

How are topo graphs best shown?

Answer 33

1. Shoreling at sea level 2. Marked areas every 20 ft 3. Continue until they reach the peak of the land area

Question 34

What is the distance between two consecutive contour lines?

Answer 34

Contour interval

Question 35

How is the slope of a hill shown on a topo graph?

Answer 35

The closer the lines the steeper the hill, the farther the flatter

Question 36

How is a cliff shown on a topo graph?

Answer 36

When lines meet, it's a cliff

Question 37

How are the tops of hills shown on a topo graph?

Answer 37

Closed circles are the tops of hills

Question 38

How are valleys and the direction of river flow shown on a topo graph?

Answer 38

As lines near a valley they bend in the direction of teh flow of the river stream

Question 39

What is the average slope?

Answer 39

Change in elevation/ distance

Question 40

How is the average slope found?

Answer 40

The distance between two lines and the difference in heights

Question 41

What shows the ups and downs of a line across a too graph?

Answer 41

Profile

Question 42

How is a profile made?

Answer 42

When you plot a point on a vertical scale a profile can be drawn