Map Skills Study Guide

1. Map Skills Study Guide

2. Please remember your all stars homework tomorrow

3. 1 • The Earth is a sphere.

4. 2 The Earth rotates on it’s axis.

5. 3 • Two things that cause changes in the seasons are the revolution and the tilt of the earth on it’s axis.

6. 4 • The imaginary line that circles the earth between the north and south poles is called the equator.

7. 5 • Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek scholar.

8. 6 • Grids on a map show location.

9. 7 • Lines on a map that run parallel to the equator are called lines of latitude.

10. 8 • Lines on a map that run from the North to the South poles are called lines of longitude.

11. 9 • An instrument that measures distance traveled is called an odometer.

12. 10 • The purpose of a map scale is to show relationship between a model and the real thing.

13. 11 • Contour lines show the distance above sea level.

14. 12 • Map makers use different projections to show a spherical object on a flat map.

15. 13 • A Mercator projection map has a problem with distortion.

16. 14 • Cartographers are map makers.

17. 15 • An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land.

18. 16 • Moisture that falls to the earth surface is called precipitation.

19. 17 • Population density shows the amount of people concentrated in a specific location.

20. 18 • The letters A.D. stand for Anno Domini which means in the year of our Lord.

21. 19 • There are 100 years in a century.

22. 20 • A time line shows specific events in order.

23. 22 • We measure distance on a map with a map scale.

24. 23 • Another name for 0 degrees longitude is the Prime Meridian.