Geog. - Map work key words (Pop Quiz) #2

Question 1

Prime Meridian

Answer 1

Another name for the Greenwich Meridian

Question 2

Degree

Answer 2

A measurement of an angle between two lines. Shown by the symbol .

Question 3

Grid reference

Answer 3

The position of a place whcih is given by naming the lines of latitude and longitude which cross through it.

E.g: the grid reference for Cape Town is 34.S ; 18.E

Question 4

Co-ordinates

Answer 4

Another name for grid reference

Question 5

model

Answer 5

an exact copy of an object; a model can be a smaller or larger copy of the original; maps are smaller models of the land

Question 6

reduced

Answer 6

made smaller

Question 7

scaled down

Answer 7

Reduced/made smaller while keeping the shape of the original

Question 8

scale

Answer 8

tells us by how much a model has been reduced or enlarged

Question 9

enlarged

Answer 9

made bigger

Question 10

scaled up

Answer 10

enlarged/made bigger, while keeping the shape of the original object

Question 11

estimate

Answer 11

an approximate amount or number based on someone’s judgement; not exact

Question 12

line scale

Answer 12

a line that shows how much of the ground is represented by one centimetre on the line and map

Question 13

word scale

Answer 13

a description of a scale, in word; for example, one centimetre on the map represents twenty kilometres on the ground

Question 14

straight-line distance

Answer 14

the distance between two places measured in a straight line; a straight-line distance does not, for e.g, follow a winding road