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Geography Term 2 Flashcards

1
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What are lines of latitude ?

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Horizontal lines that run parallel to the equator. These lines can run both north or south of the equator

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What are parallels ?

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Another name for lines of latitude

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3
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What is the equator

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The imaginary horizontal line that divides the earth into Northern and southern hemispheres

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4
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What are lines of longitudes

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Vertical lines that meet at the north and south poles

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5
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What is a meridian

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Another name for lines of longitude

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6
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What is the Northern hemisphere

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The half of the earth above the equator

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What is the southern hemisphere

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The half of the earth below the equator

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What is a sphere

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Something with a round shape

e.g. Apple / Globe

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What is a hemisphere

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Half of a sphere

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What does horizontal mean

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A line that runs from east to west or across

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What does vertical mean

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A line that runs from north to south or up and down

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12
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What is the western hemisphere

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The half of the earth from the Greenwich meridian west to the international date line

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What is the Eastern hemisphere

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The half of the earth from the Greenwich meridian east to the international date line

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What is the Greenwich Meridian

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The imaginary line that runs through Greenwich in London and divides the western and eastern hemispheres

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15
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What is the prime Meridian

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Another name for the Greenwich meridian

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16
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What is a degree

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A measurement of an angle between 2 Lines. Shown by the symbol “ ° “

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What is a grid reference.

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The position of a place which 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

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18
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Co-ordinates

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Another name for a grid reference

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19
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What so a model

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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

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What does reduced mean

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Made smaller

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21
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What does scaled down mean

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Reduced / made smaller while keeping the shape of the original

22
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What does scale mean

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

23
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What does enlarged mean

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Made bigger

24
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What does scaled up mean

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

25
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What does estimate mean

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

26
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What does line scale mean

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A line that shows how much of the ground is represented by 1cm on the line and map

27
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What does word scale mean

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A description of a scale, ; in word; for example, one centimeter on the map represents 20km on the ground.

28
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What is straight line distance

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The distance between 2 places measured in a straight line; ; a straight-line distance does not, for example, follow a winding road.

29
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What does index mean

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The section at the back of an atlas that lists all places names in alphabetical order. The index provides the page number and grid reference of the place so that you can find it in the atlas

30
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What does global statistics mean

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Important facts about the world

31
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What does current affairs mean

A

Up-to-date news

32
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What line is at the 90°N

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The North pole

33
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What line is at the 66,5°N

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The Arctic circle

34
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What line is at the 23,5°N

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Tropic of Cancer

35
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What line is at the 0°N

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The equator

36
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What line is at the 23,5°S

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The Tropic of Capricorn

37
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What line is at the 66,5°S

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The Antarctic circle

38
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What line is at the 90°S

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The South Pole

39
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What is another name for lines of longitude

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Meridians

40
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What are lines of longitude named by

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The angle that they form at the center of the globe

41
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In which 2 hemispheres is S.A. located in

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The Southern hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere

42
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How do models of trucks and cars compare in size with the real objects

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They are smaller and everything has been reduced in size

43
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What is the difference between a car and a model of a car

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The model is smaller and has been reduced in size. The detail is identical to the

44
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What is a small scale map

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When one cm on a map is worth a lot of kilometers on the ground

45
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Do you see less or more detail on a large scale map

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You see more detail

46
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Do you see less or more land on a large scale map

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Less

47
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Do you see less or more detail on a small scale map

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Less

48
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Do you see less or more land on a small scale map

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More land

49
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Compleat the sentence: All maps are scaled “_ _ _ _ “ models of the ground.

A

down

50
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On a larger scale map, I can see more/less land and more/less detail.

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Less land , more detail

51
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How do you draw a line scale

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  1. Draw the line with your ruler. The length is in the instructions.
  2. Mark every centimeter.
  3. Indicate what the cm on the scale represents
  4. Fill in the rest of the numbers and unit of measurement.

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