Mapwork 🌍🍑🌿🌞✨🍁 Flashcards
List the provinces and their capitals 🌞
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
Legislative, judicial and administrative capital ?
1 - Cape Town
2 - Bloemfontein
3 - Pretoria
What are latitude and longitude ?
Lines used to locate coordinates on the earth or map
Which way do latitude lines run ?
Horizontally
What is the location of 0 degrees north and south ?
North - North Pole
South - South Pole
What line is located at 0 degrees ?
The equator
What is the equator
An imaginary line that separates the earth into northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the length of the equator ?
40 075 Km
Which direction do lines of longitude run ?
Verticallyyyy
What is located at 0 degrees longitude ?
Greenwich meridian or prime meridian
What do the 180 degree north and south form ?
International date line
Johan us the circumference of the earth ?
The equator - 40 075 km
What happens if you measure through the poles ?
Circumference becomes 40 008 km because the earth is wider than it is tall
What is the tropic of cancers coordinates ?
23,5 degrees N
Latitudes coordinates ?
23,5 degrees S
When you explain a route to someone what do you tell them ?
{ which direction they must go
{ approximate distance from the points along the route
{ landmarks they will pass
What is a word scale ?
Statement telling us how much actual distance on the ground 1 cm on the map represents
What is a line scale ?
A line divided up so that each division represents a certain distance on the ground
What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map ?
Large scale map - lot of detail , small area
Small scale map - less detail over a bigger area
What questions do geographers ask in current events ?
< what happened ? < where did it happen ? < when did it happen ? < why did it happen ? < how did it happen ?
What is an Ariel photo ?
Photo taken of an area of land from an aeroplane
What is a topographical map ?
Accurate large scale map with colour and symbols to show were natural and human made features are located
What is an orthophotograph?
Combination of an Ariel photo and a map
