Word List

Question 1

What is mollweide direction?

Answer 1

Shows correct area size of land and oceans.

Question 2

Who developed the Mercator projection and when?

Answer 2

Gerardus Mercator in 1569

Question 3

What is the Mercator projection?

Answer 3

A grid which is rectangular and has parallel lines of latitude and longitude.

Question 4

What is Mercator projection useful for?

Answer 4

For wall maps, atlas maps & maps in books because of rectangular grid and shape.

Question 5

What are lines of latitude? ________________________

Answer 5

Lines that run across or round the globe.

Question 6

What is the longest line of latitude and what degrees does it run at?

Answer 6

The equator at 0 degrees

Question 7

What are lines of Longitude?

Answer 7

Lines that join north and south poles. Run long ways on the globe

Question 8

What is the 0 degrees line of longitude called?

Answer 8

The Greenwich meridian. Which runs through Greenwich England

Question 9

What is a line scale?

Answer 9

Line divided up to show the distances on the map and on the ground

Question 10

What is a word scale?

Answer 10

Tells us in words how much 1cm on a map represents on the ground.

Question 11

Give definition of projection?

Answer 11

It is a way of showing the round world