1. Are You Smarter Than an 8th Grader? Chapter 2 - Maps

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6th Grade Maps 5
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5th Grade Landforms 3
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3. 4th Grade Topography ? 1
The height of a location above sea level is _____, but _____ is the difference in the highest and lowest parts of the location.

4. 4th Grade Topography Answer 1
Height above sea level is elevation
Difference in high and low elevations in a particular location is relief
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5. 4th Grade Topography ? 2 Match the items:
A. plains B. plateaus C. mountains
1. Have high elevation & high relief.
2. Have low elevation & low relief.
3. Have high elevation & low relief

6. 4th Grade Topography Answer 2
1. C - mountains high / high
2. A – plains low / low
3. B – plateaus high / low

7. 5th grade Science Landforms Question 3
In what landform region are these locations (see map on p. 38)
A. Geneseo
B. Florida
C. Nebraska
D. Texas

8. 5th grade Landforms Answer 3
A. Geneseo is in the Central Lowlands
B. Florida is in the Atlantic Coastal Plain
C. Nebraska is in the Great Plains
D. Texas is in 3 regions: Gulf Coastal Plains, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains!

9. 5th grade Maps Question 4
Distances on circles, maps, globes are often measured in ____.

10. 5th grade Maps Answer 4
Degrees – not to measure temperature, but as a unit of distance instead of miles or kilometers

11. 6th grade Maps Question 5
A. These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole all around the globe, but measure distances east and west!
B. The first of these lines is ____.

12. 6th grade Maps Answer 5 A. Lines of LONGITUDE
B. The PRIME MERIDIAN which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England

13. 6th grade Maps Question 6
A. Latitude lines run ___ to ___, but always measure distances ___ and ___ away from the equator.
B. The beginning latitude line is the ___.

14. 6th grade Maps Answer 6
A. Latitude lines run EAST / WEST but measure distances NORTH or SOUTH of the equator.
B. The EQUATOR is the beginning latitude line.

15. 7th grade Maps Question 7 Match the items:
A. Mercator B. Conic C. Equal-Area
1. Least distorted and largest area
2. Least distorted of all, but the smallest area
3. Most distorted of all

16. 7th grade Maps Answer 7
1. C – Equal-area shows almost the entire globe, with some distortion at the poles.
2. B – Conic shows almost no distortion, but only a very small area.
3. A – Mercator shows most of the globe but much distortion at the poles.

17. 7th grade Topographic Maps ? 8
If a topographic map had an index contour marked 100 meters and the next index contour was marked 200 meters, with 3 contour lines between the index contours, what is the contour interval of the map?

18. 7th grade Topographic Maps Answer 8
25 meters – each contour line on the topographic map is an elevation change of 25 meters

19. 8th grade Topographic Maps Question 9
If contour lines are very close together, the elevation is ____, but if the contour lines are very far apart, the elevation is ____.

20. 8th grade Topographic Maps Answer 9
When lines are very close, the relief is high and the elevation is changing rapidly – it is steep!
When lines are far apart, the relief is low and the elevation is changing slowly – the slope is gentle or flat

21. 8th grade Technology ? 10
What is GPS and how is it used?

22. 8th grade Technology Answer 10
GPS is “Global Positioning System.” With a device on land, at least 3 GPS satellites can be used to provide exact Lat/Long coordinates for location of the land device (and you).

23. Million Dollar Question
9th grade Earth Science:
Topographic Maps

24. $1,000,000 Question
Answer #’s 3 & 4 on page 63 in the Standardized Test Prep section.

25. $1,000,000 Answer
3. The relief or topography represented by the map is most like A
4. The contour interval of the map is given as 15 meters, so X has to be 1500 – 15 = 1485 meters.
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