Geography Grade 6 term 1 Flashcards
What is a hemisphere
One half of the earth
What does imaginary mean
It does not really exist
What is latitude
Lines on a globe or map that run from east to west
What is longitude
Lines on a globe that run from north to south
What are lines of latitude and longitude
They are imaginary lines that people draw and maps and globes. They are not real lines on the land
What does the equator do
It divides the earth into 2 equal halves
What are the two halves of the earth called
Hemispheres
What does the equator divide the world into
The northern and southern hemisphere
What is the greenwich meridian
A line of longitude that passes through a place called Greenwich in England
What does the Greenwich Meridian do
It divides the world into the eastern and western hemisphere.
What do lines of longitude and latitude do
They divide the globe into a pattern grid. Each line has a number in degrees
What is the number in degrees of the equator
0 degree line of latitude
What is the number in degrees of the Greenwich Meridian
0 degree line of longitude
Where do we measure 90 degrees of latitude
North to the north pole
Where do we measure 90 degrees of longitude
South of the South Pole
What do we use degrees for
To describe the position of a place
How do give degrees of a place
WE always give degrees of latitude first and then degrees of longitude
What do we call it when we give the degrees of latitude and longitude
We call these co-ordinates
What does the word represents mean
To stand in place of something
What is scale about
It is about size. Distances on maps are an exact number of times smaller that the real distances on the land. Each map has a different scale. For example. A map might be 10 x smaller than the real distance and another map might be 1000 x smaller than the real distance.
What does the map scale tell us
It tells us the length of real distance on the ground. The line at the bottom of the map shows you the map scale
What do small scale maps show
It shows large areas on the ground in less detail
What does line scales show you
It shows the map scale as a line under the map. The ground distance is written on the line as a number.
What can we also use to describe scale
We can also use words
