Earth Origins Jeopardy

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Earth Science Daily Challenge, 1/3

• 1. What direction does Red Creek flow?2. What
  is the latitude longitude of New Hope?3. If
  you began at the high school followed your
  compass north until you were on top of a hill,
  how far have you walked? How much did you
  elevation increase on your walk?

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MAPPING UNIT JEOPARDY
Earths Surface Parts of a Map Map Projections Latitude - Longitude Name that Cont/Ocean
100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500
600 600 600 600 600
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Earths Surface 100

• What makes up the earths biosphere?

all living things
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Earths Surface 200

• What kind of landform region has low relief and
  may be coastal or interior in nature?

plains
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5
Earths Surface 300

• Which of earths spheres consists of all the
  water on earth?

hydrosphere
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6
Earths Surface 400

• What kind of landform region has low relief and
  high elevation?

plateaus
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Earths Surface 500

• What term means shape of the land and depends
  on elevation, relief, landforms?

topography
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8
Earths Surface 600

• Which of earths spheres consists of all the
  solid rocks, sediments, and soils on earth?

lithosphere
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Parts of a Map 100

• What is shown by a maps compass rose? (This is a
  term for north, south, east, and west.)

cardinal directions
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Parts of a Map 200

• What part of a map explains what the symbols on
  the map mean?

key or legend
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Parts of a Map 300

• What part of a map shows how distances on a map
  compare to distances in the real world?

map scale
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Parts of a Map 400

• What is the name of the direction that is the
  same as a bearing of 225?

southwest
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Parts of a Map 500

• If 1 inch on the map equals 50 miles in the real
  world, how far apart are two cities that are 5 ½
  inches apart on the map?

275 miles
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Parts of a Map 600

• If you are walking directly ENE and then take a
  sharp left, what is your bearing (in degrees)?

337.5
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Map Projections 100

• What is the most accurate model of the earth?

a globe
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Map Projections 200

• What kind of map projection shows lines of
  latitude and longitude all straight and meeting
  at 90 angles?

Mercator projection
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Map Projections 300
What parts or the world are most accurately shown
with a map based on an azimuthal projection?
polar regions
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Map Projections 400
What kind of map projection most accurately
portrays the mid-latitudes?
conic projection
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Map Projections 500

• What geometric shape is a Mercator projection
  based on?

a cylinder
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Map Projections 600

• What is distorted on a Robinson projection?

everything is distorted a little shapes and
areas
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Latitude - Longitude 100

• What line of latitude divides the northern and
  southern hemispheres?

equator
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Latitude - Longitude 200

• What city is the basis of the Prime Meridian?

Grenwhich, England
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Latitude - Longitude 300

• What is another term for the lines of latitude on
  earth?

parallels
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Latitude - Longitude 400

• These lines on the earth are all the same length
  and meet at the north and south poles? (This is
  another tem for longitude.)

meridians
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Latitude - Longitude 500

• What is the name of the 180E or 180W longitude
  line?

International Date Line
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Latitude - Longitude 600

• What is the latitude and longitude of a point on
  earth directly opposite of 27N, 80E

27S, 100W
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Name that Continent or Ocean 100

• What continent or ocean is found at 10N, 30E ?

Africa
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Name that Continent or Ocean 200

• What continent or ocean is found at 35N, 100W
  ?

North America
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Name that Continent or Ocean 300

• What continent or ocean is found at 80N, 40E ?

Arctic Ocean
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Name that Continent or Ocean 400

• What continent or ocean is found at 25S, 140E
  ?

Australia
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Name that Continent or Ocean 500
What continent or ocean is found at 85S, 90W ?
Antarctica
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Name that Continent or Ocean 600
What continent or ocean is found at 10S, 60E ?
Indian Ocean
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