Maps And Globes

Question 1

What is a scale?

Answer 1

Making something smaller

Question 2

What are maps

Answer 2

Accurate smaller versions of larger areas on land

Question 3

What are the three types of scales?

Answer 3

Word
Ratio
Line

Question 4

What are word scales?

Answer 4

Using words as though speaking to say what one cm on map represents as distance on ground

Question 5

What is a ratio scale?

Answer 5

When the units are both represented as cm on both sides

1:500

(1cm on map = 500cm on land)

Question 6

What is a line scale?

Answer 6

Using a half shaded bar to represent what 1 cm on map equals on land

Question 7

What do latitude and longitude do?

Answer 7

Help us find the exact position of something on a map

Question 8

Which way do lines of latitude run?

Answer 8

Horizontally. They run from the west to the east and divide the globe from the north to the south and it is called the equator.

0° line of latitude.

Question 9

What’s the weight of the line of longitude run?

Answer 9

They run vertically joining the north and south pole and dividing the world from west to east

Question 10

What is the longest line of latitude?

Answer 10

Equator or

0° line of latitude

Question 11

What is the 0° line of longitude?

Answer 11

The prime/Green which Maredian

Question 12

Where is the international dateline?

Answer 12

At 180°

Question 13

Why is it important to know the coordinates of a place on a map

Answer 13

So that we can find any place we need

Question 14

How many minutes are there in 1°

Answer 14

60

Question 15

How do decided a degree into minutes

Answer 15

1. Divide 1° into half this is 30 minutes
2. Divide each half into three column this equals 10 minutes
3. Divide each 10 minute column into 10 equal one minute coloums

Question 16

How do we work out coordinates

Answer 16

By combining the latitude and longitude

Question 17

Does the time stay the same everywhere in the world?

Answer 17

No, the time changes by one hour for every 15 degrees of longitude

Question 18

Why do most countries adjust their time zones?

Answer 18

Economic efficiency

Question 19

What is the international date line?

Answer 19

Follows 180 degree line of longitude

Divides the world into eastern and western (pacific ocean side)

It is adjusted to fit with the location and shape of countries

Date changes either side side of IDL

Places in the eastern hemisphere are a day earlier than places in the Western Hemisphere

Question 20

South African standard time (SAST)

Answer 20

Should have 2 time zones

Government decided to make adjust -economic efficiency

Question 21

Explain the Earth revolution around the sun

Answer 21

Earth is tilted at 23 1/2° angle

The angle of the axis affect the length of day and night and causes different seasons

Rotates on its own axis will revolving around the sun

Causes day and Night

Takes 24 hours to rotate on its own axis

The Earth takes 365 1/4 days for one revolution the sun

Question 22

What happens in one part of the Earth is leaning away from the sun?

Answer 22

This area is winter

Days are shorter

Nights are longer

Question 23

What are the equinox

Answer 23

This is the time of year when day and night are the same number of hours for all places in the world

There are two every year called autumn and spring

Autumn is on 21 March
Spring is on the 23rd of September

The sun is directly over the equator