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Mapwork 🌍🍑🌿🌞✨🍁 Flashcards

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1
Q

List the provinces and their capitals 🌞

A 
Western cape - Cape Town 
Northern cape - Kimberley 
Eastern cape - Bisho 
Kwazulu - natal - Pietermaritzburg 
Free state - Bloemfontein 
North west - mafikeng 
Gauteng - Johannesburg 
Mpumalanga - mbombela 
Limpopo - polokwane
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Legislative, judicial and administrative capital ?

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1 - Cape Town
2 - Bloemfontein
3 - Pretoria

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3
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What are latitude and longitude ?

A

Lines used to locate coordinates on the earth or map

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4
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Which way do latitude lines run ?

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Horizontally

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5
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What is the location of 0 degrees north and south ?

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North - North Pole

South - South Pole

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6
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What line is located at 0 degrees ?

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The equator

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What is the equator

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An imaginary line that separates the earth into northern and Southern Hemispheres

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8
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What is the length of the equator ?

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40 075 Km

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9
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Which direction do lines of longitude run ?

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Verticallyyyy

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10
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What is located at 0 degrees longitude ?

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Greenwich meridian or prime meridian

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11
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What do the 180 degree north and south form ?

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International date line

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12
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Johan us the circumference of the earth ?

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The equator - 40 075 km

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What happens if you measure through the poles ?

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Circumference becomes 40 008 km because the earth is wider than it is tall

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14
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What is the tropic of cancers coordinates ?

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23,5 degrees N

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15
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Latitudes coordinates ?

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23,5 degrees S

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16
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When you explain a route to someone what do you tell them ?

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{ which direction they must go
{ approximate distance from the points along the route
{ landmarks they will pass

17
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What is a word scale ?

A

Statement telling us how much actual distance on the ground 1 cm on the map represents

18
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What is a line scale ?

A

A line divided up so that each division represents a certain distance on the ground

19
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What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map ?

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Large scale map - lot of detail , small area

Small scale map - less detail over a bigger area

20
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What questions do geographers ask in current events ?

A 
< what happened ?
< where did it happen ?
< when did it happen ?
< why did it happen ?
< how did it happen ?
21
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What is an Ariel photo ?

A

Photo taken of an area of land from an aeroplane

22
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What is a topographical map ?

A

Accurate large scale map with colour and symbols to show were natural and human made features are located

23
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What is an orthophotograph?

A

Combination of an Ariel photo and a map

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