Map Skills Study Guide

Please remember your all stars homework tomorrow

1 The Earth is a sphere.

2 The Earth rotates on it’s axis.

3 Two things that cause changes in the seasons are the revolution and the tilt of the earth on it’s axis.

4 The imaginary line that circles the earth between the north and south poles is called the equator.

5 Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek scholar.

6 Grids on a map show location.

7 Lines on a map that run parallel to the equator are called lines of latitude.

8 Lines on a map that run from the North to the South poles are called lines of longitude.

9 An instrument that measures distance traveled is called an odometer.

10 The purpose of a map scale is to show relationship between a model and the real thing.

11 Contour lines show the distance above sea level.

12 Map makers use different projections to show a spherical object on a flat map.

13 A Mercator projection map has a problem with distortion.

14 Cartographers are map makers.

15 An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land.

16 Moisture that falls to the earth surface is called precipitation.

17 Population density shows the amount of people concentrated in a specific location.

18 The letters A.D. stand for Anno Domini which means in the year of our Lord.

19 There are 100 years in a century.

20 A time line shows specific events in order.

22 We measure distance on a map with a map scale.

23 Another name for 0 degrees longitude is the Prime Meridian.