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| What is a drawing that shows the surface area of an area? |
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| What is the tallest mountain in the world located in the Himalaya on the border between Nepal and Tibet? |
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| Who was an Athenian leader who made sure that all citizens could take part in government? |
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| What is one of Earth's 7 large bodies of land? |
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| What are imaginary lines that run north and south, and measure the distance east and west of the prime meridian? |
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| What is one of the halve of the Earth? |
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| What is an imaginary line circling the Earth halfway between the north and south poles? it divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. |
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| What is the pattern formed on a map or globe by the crossing of parallels and meridians? The pattern makes it easy to pinpoint exact locations. |
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| What is any line of longitude east or west of the prime meridian? |
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| What is the distance north or south of the equator that is measured by imaginary lines or parallels that run east and west around the Earth? |
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| What is a photograph taken from the air? |
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| What is a round model with a map of the world on it? |
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| What is the line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world map, from which longitudes east and west are measured? |
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| What is any line of latitude north or south of the equator? These lines never cross or meet. |
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| What is the longitude and latitude of a place? |
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| What are the directions north, south, east and west? |
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| What are the directions halfway between the cardinal direction; northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest? |
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| What is the location of a place in relation to another place? (Ex: the United State is south of Canada.) |
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| What is the unit of measure on a map such as an inch that is used to represent the distance of Earth? |
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| What is something that stands for something else on a map? |
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| What is a list of map symbols that tells what each symbol stands for? |
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| What is a guide that shows what each symbol on a map stand for? |
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| What is a small map that shows where the subject area of main map is located? |
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| What is a map mainly showing political divisions, such as national and state boundaries, cities and state capitals? |
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| What is a map that primarily shows a neutral features of earth such as river, lakes and mountains? |
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| What is a map that shows the height of land above sea level? |
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| What is the use of shading to show changes in the elevation? |
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| What is a map that shows information about the past? |
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| What is a special purpose map that shows how a particular feature such as population density is spread over an area? |
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| What is one of the halves of the earth divided by the equator or the meridian? |
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| What is one of the great divisions of land on the globe, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, North or South America or Australia? |
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| What is a circle showing the principal directions on a map or chart? |
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| What is a pattern on interesting lines that divides a map or chart into small squares? |
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| What are the seven continents? |
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| Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Antarctica, Europe, Austrailia |
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| Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic |
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