STUDY GUIDE - Loudoun County Public Schools
STUDY GUIDE
EARTH SCIENCE CHAPTER THREE
Use the word bank to complete the fill in the blank sentences.
|Direction of the river’s |Seven |Equator |Prime Meridian |180( (use twice) |
|source | | | | |
|Ratio |Verbal |Cliff |Craters of a Volcano |Change in Elevation |
1. Depression contours are used to show ________________________.
2. A map scale of “1 inch equals 2000 feet” is a _____________scale.
3. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres are divided by the _______________.
4. __________ Degrees of latitude separate the North and South Poles.
5. A map scale 1:24 000 is a __________________scale.
6. Starting at sea level, _____________contour lines (with a contour interval of 20 feet) would be needed to show an island 125 ft high on a map.
7. To determine the average slope of two points on a topographic map, you need to know the distance between the points and ______________ __________ _____________________.
8. ___________is the greatest number of degrees that a traveler can ever be from the prime meridian.
9. The ________________ divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
10. A ________________is the landform shown by many contour lines drawn very close together.
11. When a contour line crosses a river, the contour lines make a V, or bends, to form a point _____________________________________.
|Bench mark |Latitude |Longitude |Degrees |
|Map Scale |Minute |Prime Meridian |Map Projection |
|Equator |Parallels |Elevation |Meridians |
|Contour Interval |Hachures |International Date Line |Topographic Map |
12. ____________indicates locations north and south of the equator.
13. The height above sea level is ________________________.
14. A ________________is a system for drawing maps.
15. Short straight lines that indicate depressions are called ________________.
16. _______________are lines of longitude.
17. 0( longitude is called the _____________ ___________________.
18. A ____________is 1/60 of a degree.
19. The difference in elevation between two contour lines is called _________ ____________.
20. 0( latitude represents the ___________________-.
21. Locations east or west of the prime meridian represent _____________.
22. __________________ are lines of latitude.
23. The _____________ ______________ _________ is 180( longitude.
24. A ____________ ____________represents the distance along ground.
25. ____________ are units to measure latitude and longitude.
26. An exact elevation indicator is a __________ __________.
27. A ______________ ______________ is a map showing relief features.
There will be questions on plotting latitude and longitude on a map and there will be SOL questions that you should be able to answer based on your understanding the material.
Match the profiles with the correct contour map
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