Social Studies Hw - Grade 8 - Lesson 5

A landform is an artificially formed feature on Earth's surface.

• True

• False

Latitude lines are called parallels.

• True 

• False

Land mercator projects distort the sizes of land areas near the pole.

• True

• False

Degrees are further divided into seconds.

• True

• False

There are 60 minutes in a degree.

• True 

• False

Longitude is the east-west lines in the grid.

• True

• False

What do we call different ways of showing our round planet on flat maps?

• Map presentations 

• Map projections

What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the globe into eat and west halves?

• Equator 

• Prime Meridian

In cylindrical maps: why do landmasses appear larger than they are?

• Bec. the meridians are perpendicular instead of parallel

• Bec. the meridians are parallel instead of meeting at the poles.

Mercator Projection is an example of

• Conic Projections

• Flat-plane Projections

• Cylindrical Projections