BJ Geography chapter one
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- Maps made by placing a flat sheet of paper on an imaginary wire globe, touching only one point and the shadows traced on this paper form what type of map?
- azimuthal projection
- A typical globe is covered by twelve paper strips called?
- gores
- Maps made by placing a cone-shaped piece of paper on an imaginary wire globe, tracing the shadow onto the cone, then open and flatten the cone are called?
- conic projection
- A reference point in which government surverors used to subdivide the land into a series of smaller squares.
- principal meridians
- Imaginary lines running east and west around the earth.
- latitude
- A detailed description of the earth, especially it's surface.
- geography
- A line of latitude
- parallel
- Imaginary lines that run north to south, stretching from pole to pole, around the earth.
- longitude
- Measure the land.
- survey
- The height and depth of land features.
- relief
- A regular pattern of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines.
- grid
- The line that divides the earth between the north and south.
- equator
- A line of longitude
- meridian
- When dividing the earth's sphere into two halves, what is each half called?
- hemisphere
- Mapmaking
- cartography
- The meridian passing through Greenwich, England, which serves as the base line for determining longitude
- Prime Meridian
- The lines that separate colors on a relief map.
- contour lines
- Detailed land features, including their heights
- topography
- Any method used to "project" the earth's round surface onto a flat map.
- map projection
- An imaginary line that can be drawn around the earth to cut it into equal hemispheres.
- great circle
- To twist or bend out of shape.
- distortion
- Maps that are made by rolling a sheet of paper around the wire globe in the shape of a cylinder and tracing the shadows cast by the light then unrolling the paper to get a flat map is called?
- cylindrical projection
- Maps that cut and flatten the earth like an orange peel are called?
- interrupted projections
- An area of land ten chains long and one chain wide.
- acre