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1. What is the name of the two fixed points through which an imaginary line called an axis passes?
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2. What is the equator? _____________________________________________________
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3. When the earth is divided into two equal halves (with the equator as the dividing line between the
two halves) each half is called a ______________________________________________
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4. What is a line of latitude? _________________________________________________
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5. How is each line of latitude numbered? ________________________________________
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6. How are lines of latitude labeled in the Northern Hemisphere?_______________________
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7. How are lines of latitude labeled in the Southern Hemisphere? _______________________
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8. The lines of latitude range from ______°  to _______°
9. The halfway point between the equator and the North Pole would be _____° N latitude.
10. What are lines of longitude? _______________________________________________
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11. Another name for a line of longitude is a _______________________________________
12. What is the prime meridian? ________________________________________________
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13. How do we label locations west of the prime meridian? ____________________________
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14. How do we label locations east of the prime meridian? ____________________________
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15. Lines of longitude range from ________° to ________° in both directions.
16. Where is the line of longitude that measures 180° ? _______________________________
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17. What is the international date line? ____________________________________________
18. Lines of latitude and longitude help us to _______________________________________
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19. What is meant by a projection map?___________________________________________
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20. In a cylindrical projection, the _________________of the continents are shown accurately but
their ___________________ is distorted.
21. Landmasses away from the equator look much  (larger / smaller) than they really are.
22. A conic projection can show only one __________________________.
23. A __________________________ projection would be good for navigating the ocean because
distances could be calculated on its straight lines.
24. Why do cylindrical projections cause people to have a false view of the size of some land areas? __________________________________________________________________________
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25. What are equal-area projections?  _____________________________________________
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26. What is a political map?  _____________________________________________________
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27. Name at least 8 other kinds of maps. ____________________________________________
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28. People who make maps are called _____________________________.
29. What is meant by the term field mapping? ________________________________________
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30. How have satellites changed map-making? ________________________________________
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31. What are at least 7 items that can be represented on a map with a symbol?
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32. What is the purpose of a legend on a map? _______________________________________
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33. What is meant by a map's scale? _______________________________________________
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34. What are three ways that you or your family might use a map during an ordinary day?
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