Geography Term 2

Question 1

What are lines of latitude ?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What are parallels ?

Answer 2

Another name for lines of latitude

Question 3

What is the equator

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What are lines of longitudes

Answer 4

Vertical lines that meet at the north and south poles

Question 5

What is a meridian

Answer 5

Another name for lines of longitude

Question 6

What is the Northern hemisphere

Answer 6

The half of the earth above the equator

Question 7

What is the southern hemisphere

Answer 7

The half of the earth below the equator

Question 8

What is a sphere

Answer 8

Something with a round shape

e.g. Apple / Globe

Question 9

What is a hemisphere

Answer 9

Half of a sphere

Question 10

What does horizontal mean

Answer 10

A line that runs from east to west or across

Question 11

What does vertical mean

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What is the western hemisphere

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is the Eastern hemisphere

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is the Greenwich Meridian

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is the prime Meridian

Answer 15

Another name for the Greenwich meridian

Question 16

What is a degree

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is a grid reference.

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Co-ordinates

Answer 18

Another name for a grid reference

Question 19

What so a model

Answer 19

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 20

What does reduced mean

Answer 20

Made smaller

Question 21

What does scaled down mean

Answer 21

Reduced / made smaller while keeping the shape of the original

Question 22

What does scale mean

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does enlarged mean

Answer 23

Made bigger

Question 24

What does scaled up mean

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What does estimate mean

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What does line scale mean

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What does word scale mean

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What is straight line distance

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What does index mean

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What does global statistics mean

Answer 30

Important facts about the world

Question 31

What does current affairs mean

Answer 31

Up-to-date news

Question 32

What line is at the 90°N

Answer 32

The North pole

Question 33

What line is at the 66,5°N

Answer 33

The Arctic circle

Question 34

What line is at the 23,5°N

Answer 34

Tropic of Cancer

Question 35

What line is at the 0°N

Answer 35

The equator

Question 36

What line is at the 23,5°S

Answer 36

The Tropic of Capricorn

Question 37

What line is at the 66,5°S

Answer 37

The Antarctic circle

Question 38

What line is at the 90°S

Answer 38

The South Pole

Question 39

What is another name for lines of longitude

Answer 39

Meridians

Question 40

What are lines of longitude named by

Answer 40

The angle that they form at the center of the globe

Question 41

In which 2 hemispheres is S.A. located in

Answer 41

The Southern hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere

Question 42

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

Answer 42

They are smaller and everything has been reduced in size

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What is a small scale map

Answer 44

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

Question 45

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

Answer 45

You see more detail

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Less

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Less

Question 48

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

Answer 48

More land

Question 49

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

Answer 49

down

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Less land , more detail

Question 51

How do you draw a line scale

Answer 51

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.