Mapping

Longitude and Latitude

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Do Now Write the questions and answers

• Read page 26 in the Guidebook, answer the questions at the top preceding the reading.

• Bonus Questions• What do closely spaced contour lines

indicate?• What do widely spaced contour lines indicate?

Homework

• Work on all assignments, you will have a new

homework assignment tomorrow.

Longitude and Latitude

• Discuss the Do-Now • Review• Page 24-26, read around• Balloon- Globe Activity

http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/geoeduc/adaptiveactivities.PDF

Review• What tells us the shape of the land?• What does the topography of an area include?• What is elevation?• How do you find the relief? • What is the order of landform from lowest to

highest elevation?• What is the description of a plain?• What is the description of a plateau?• What is the description of a mountain?

• Map is a flat model of all or part of the Earth’s surface.

• Scale relates distance on a map to the distance on Earth’s surface. (practice math skills)

• Degree is 1/360 of the distance around a circle.