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| What are the three types of scales? |
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| Line scale; statement scale; ratio scale |
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| A line marked with a distance (e.g. _________ = 1 kilometer |
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| What is a statement scale? |
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| example: 1 square = 1 kilometer |
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| Longitude lines are the vertical lines which converge at the poles and extend east and west from the Prime Meridian |
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| Where is the Prime Meridian? |
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| Why is the Prime Meridian in Greenwich? |
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| Because the British were major snots and at the time had lots of big nasty warships, so they could say the Prime Meridian was on Planet Zort and no one would object. |
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| The horizontal lines running around the earth, each one 111k from the next. |
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| What is a topographical map? |
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| A map showing both natural and human features. |
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| What are the three types of map? |
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| General-purpose; thematic; topographic |
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| Shows one type of feature (e.g. highway map, religious map) |
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| What is a general-purpose map? |
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| Shows a great variety of features. |
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| The National Topographic System, the map system for Canada |
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| What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map? |
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| A large scale map shows a large amount of detail in a small area, and a small scale map shows a small amount of detail in a large area. |
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| What is the UTM coordinate system? |
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| The Universal Transverse Mercator, a way to calculate coordinates globally. |
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| What is the Great Circle Route? |
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| A line on a sphere that divides the sphere into two equal hemispheres.
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| What is Greenwich Mean Time? |
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| The time zone directly on the Prime Meridian |
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| What is the Internation Date Line? |
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| The IDL is a horizontal line that runs around the earth, usualy at 180 degrees latitude, changing the date as you travel east or west along it. |
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| A detail on a map so small that you draw it as a dot. |
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| A detail on a map that you draw as a line (a river, a path, etc.) |
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| What is an area (or polygon) feature? |
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| A detail on a map large enough to be drawn as per its real shape (like a country) |
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| An internal knowlege of an area |
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| The distance from one point to another disregarding obstacles (an underground phone line would follow direct distance) |
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| The distance from one point to another INCLUDING obstacles (for instance, a path going up a mountain would add the distance you go up to the direct distance) |
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| What is the principle of least effort? |
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| A route that may not be the shortest way, but is the easiest (i.e. going around a lake instead of swimming it) |
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| What is the directional symbol? |
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| The symbol on a map that shows which direction is which (like an arrow pointing north) |
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| A line on a map showing elevation (like mountains) |
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| How do you show how steep or gentle a slope is? |
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| The steeper the slope, the closer together the contour lines are |
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| The highest point of a mountain |
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| As if a mountain has been cut in half, and you are looking at one-half from inside (remember the clay model) |
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