Question 1

What do all maps contain and why?

Accepted Answer

Certain tools that are the same that help to interpret the information on that specific map

Question 2

Why is it important to know the tools of maps and how to use them effectively?

Accepted Answer

Knowing what these tools are and how to use them will help you use all maps more effectively

Question 3

What is a compass rose?

Accepted Answer

Marker that indicates directions

Answer

a list that explains what the symbols on a map stand for

Answer

item that shows the relationship between map measurements and actual distance

Question 4

What are the directions N, S, W, E known as?

Accepted Answer

Cardinal directions

Answer

Intermediate directions

Question 5

What are the directions NW, SW, NE, SE known as?

Accepted Answer

Intermediate directions

Answer

Cardinal directions

Question 6

What helps one remember how to draw a compass rose correctly?

Accepted Answer

Weeee and not Ewwww

Question 7

Which way should North point?

Accepted Answer

Away from you, toward the top of your desk

Question 8

What is a key?

Accepted Answer

a list that explains what the symbols on a map stand for

Answer

Marker that indicates directions

Answer

item that shows the relationship between map measurements and actual distance

Question 9

How is each key different?

Accepted Answer

Specific to each map

Question 10

What is a scale bar?

Accepted Answer

Shows the relationship between map measurements and actual distance

Question 11

What is the purpose of a scale bar?

Accepted Answer

Shows how far it is from one place to another

Question 12

What is a physical map according to your notes?

Accepted Answer

Shows the location and topography of the earth's physical features

Question 13

What types of features are found on a physical map according to your notes?

Accepted Answer

mountains, deserts, and bodies of water

Question 14

What is the very simple definition of what can be found on a physical map according to your notes?

Accepted Answer

things you can touch

Question 15

What is a political map according to your notes?

Accepted Answer

Shows the boundaries between countries and smaller internal divisions such as states or counties

Question 16

What types of features are found on a political map according to your notes?

Accepted Answer

Features borders of states, counties, capitals, and cities

Question 17

What is a very simple definition of what can be found on a political map?

Accepted Answer

things that are there because the government says they are

Question 18

What are the 2 ways that location is described in geography?

Accepted Answer

Relative and Absolute

Question 19

What is the definition of relative location?

Accepted Answer

describes how a place is related to its surrounding environment

Question 20

What does one have to know to find relative location?

Accepted Answer

can only be found if one is familiar with the specific characteristics of a place

Question 21

What is the definition of absolute location?

Accepted Answer

exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found

Question 22

How is absolute location described?

Accepted Answer

using a grid of lines on the earth's surface; latitude and longitude

Question 23

What is the definition of hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

of the earth into 2 equal halves

Question 24

What divides the N&S halves of the earth?

Accepted Answer

equator

Answer

Prime Meridian

Answer

Tropic of Capricorn

Answer

Tropic of Cancer

Question 25

What divides the E&W halves of the earth?

Accepted Answer

Prime Meridian

Answer

Tropic of Capricorn

Answer

equator

Answer

Tropic of Cancer

Question 26

What are imaginary lines that run horizontal and parallel to the equator?

Accepted Answer

latitude lines

Answer

longitude lines

Answer

degree lines

Answer

time lines

Question 27

What lines measure distances north or south of the equator?

Accepted Answer

latitude lines

Answer

longitude lines

Answer

time lines

Answer

degree lines

Question 28

What is the rhyme that reminds you how latitude lines run?

Accepted Answer

Lat rhymes with flat - Latitude lines run horizontally or flat

Question 29

What are imaginary lines that run vertically around the earth over the poles?

Accepted Answer

longitude lines

Answer

latitude lines

Answer

degree lines

Answer

time lines

Question 30

What lines measure distances east or west starting at the Prime Meridian?

Accepted Answer

longitude lines

Answer

latitude lines

Answer

degree lines

Answer

time lines

Question 31

(Honors only:) How are degrees broken up more precisely?

Accepted Answer

Each degree of latitude and longitude is subdivided into 60 minutes and 60 seconds for more precise readings

Question 32

What caused the need for time zones?

Accepted Answer

introduction of railroads

Answer

introduction of cars

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invention of clocks

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invention of airplanes

Question 33

How many times zones are there and why?

Accepted Answer

24 time zones each 1,000 miles across at the equator

Answer

12 time zones each 2,000 miles across at the equator

Answer

4 time zones each 12,000 miles across at the equator

Answer

36 time zones each 1,000 miles across at the equator

Question 34

Where do times zones begin?

Accepted Answer

at the Prime Meridian

Answer

at the Tropic of Capricorn

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at the Tropic of Cancer

Answer

at the Equator

Question 35

Where do time zones end?

Accepted Answer

end at the International Date Line

Question 36

(Honors only:) How does the International Date Line work?

Accepted Answer

gain one day when crossing to the east, lose one day when crossing to the west

Question 37

What happens when you cross time zones to the east? Why?

Accepted Answer

+1 hour because the sun rises in the east

Question 38

What happen when you cross time zones to the west? Why?

Accepted Answer

-1 hour because the sun sets in the west

Question 39

How many time zones does the US have?

Accepted Answer

the US has 4 times zones

Question 40

What are the US time zones?

Accepted Answer

Eastern (farthest east), Central, Mountain, Pacific (farthest west)

Question 41

What are continents?

Accepted Answer

landmasses above water on earth

Question 42

What was Francis Bacon's theory?

Accepted Answer

7 continents were once a super continent

Question 43

What was the 1st proof of a super continent?

Accepted Answer

matching rocks in Africa from South America

Question 44

What was Alfred Wegner's theory?

Accepted Answer

continental drift

Question 45

What is continental drift?

Accepted Answer

earth was once super continent of Pangaea with all continents part of one super continent

Question 46

What is Pangaea?

Accepted Answer

super continent all continents were once a part of

Question 47

(Honors only:) Pangaea is the Greek word for?

Accepted Answer

all earth

Question 48

What are our current 7 continent names?

Accepted Answer

North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica

Question 49

What # planets in solar system?

Accepted Answer

8

Answer

7

Answer

6

Answer

5

Question 50

(Honors only:) How far is earth from the sun?

Accepted Answer

93 million miles

Question 51

What is earth's circumference and diameter?

Accepted Answer

24,900 m circ.; 7,900m dia.

Question 52

What and where is the core?

Accepted Answer

made from iron and nickel; located at the center of the earth

Question 53

What and where is the mantle?

Accepted Answer

surrounds the core and is most of the earth's mass

Question 54

What and where is magma?

Accepted Answer

molten rock; forms in the mantle rises through the crust

Question 55

What and where is the crust?

Accepted Answer

thin layer of rock; located at the earth's surface

Question 56

What does the structure of earth resemble?

Accepted Answer

a peanut M&M

Question 57

What and where is the atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

layer of gases; surrounding the earth

Question 58

What and where is lithosphere and what is it made of?

Accepted Answer

solid rock of the earth's surface, includes crust and uppermost mantle

Question 59

What is the hydrosphere?

Accepted Answer

all water on earth

Question 60

What and where is the biosphere and what is it made of?

Accepted Answer

atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere combined; where plants and animals live

Question 61

What is plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

massive, moving pieces of Earth's lithosphere

Question 62

What does plate movement cause?

Accepted Answer

causes the earth to be continually reshaped through earthquakes and volcanoes

Question 63

What 4 ways do plates move?

Accepted Answer

spreading apart, diving under another plate, sliding past each other, crashing together

Question 64

What is 1 example of plate movement affecting the surface of the earth in the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

Egypt's plates spreading widening the Red Sea

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