Lab Quiz #1

Question 1

1 millimeter equals ___ meters

Answer 1

0.001 m

Question 2

1 centimeter equals ___ meters

Answer 2

0.01 m

Question 3

1 kilometer equals ___ meters

Answer 3

1000.0 m

Question 4

1 meter equals ___ feet

Answer 4

3.28 ft

Question 5

1 centimeter equals ___ inches

Answer 5

0.39 in

Question 6

1 kilometer equals ___ miles

Answer 6

0.62 miles

Question 7

1 foot equals ___ meters

Answer 7

0.30 m

Question 8

1 inch equals ___ centimeters

Answer 8

2.54 cm

Question 9

1 mile equals ___ kilometers

Answer 9

1.61 km

Question 10

what is a parallel?

Answer 10

A line connecting all points along the same latitude

Question 11

what is a meridian?

Answer 11

A line connecting all points along the same longitude

Question 12

what is map scale?

Answer 12

The ratio between the distance separating two points on a map and the distance between those two points on a map

Question 13

What is a written or verbal scale?

Answer 13

States the ratio, “one cm to one km”

Question 14

what is a ratio or fractional scale?

Answer 14

contains either a : or a / as in 1:24,000 or 1/24,000

Question 15

what is a bar scale?

Answer 15

a line or bar divided into segments illustrating the relationship between the map distance and the ground distance

Question 16

what is a small scale map?

Answer 16

A map that has a large denominator and covers a bigger area of land

Question 17

what is a large scale map?

Answer 17

A map that has a small denominator and covers a smaller area of land

Question 18

What is the suns declination?

Answer 18

The latitude that receives direct rays from the sun

Question 19

How do you find the temperature difference of an unknown location?

Answer 19

1. Find the difference in elevation
2. Divide the answer by 1000
3. Multiply by 6.5 (finds the difference in temp)
4. Either add or subtract the the temp difference to the temp of the known location. (Add if location 2 is a lower elevation than location 1 and vice versa)

Question 20

what is an antipode?

Answer 20

points on the globe that are diametrically opposite each other

Question 21

how do you find a places antipode? Ex: 56 N, 38 E

Answer 21

Latitude stays the same (but in the opposite hemisphere) and the longitude is subtracted from 180 and the direction is switched. Ex: 56 S, 142 W

Question 22

Atmospheric pressure ____ with altitude

Answer 22

decreases