What is the name of the line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemisphere?
Equator
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What is the name of the line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western hemisphere?
Greenwich meridian
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What is a globe?
A spherical representation of the Earth
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What differences are there between a map and a globe?
Globes represent the Earth as it really is. They also show the Earth tilted on its axis.
Maps represent the world as flat.
Lines of lat. and long: both
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What is the key of a map?
The part where the symbols of the map are explained.
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What is a physical map?
Those that show the location of natural features, such as mountains, rivers and lakes.
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What is a political map?
The one that shows countries, capitals and cities.
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What is a large-scale map?
The one that shows more details, and in which features are larger.
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What is a small-scale map?
The one that shows less details and in which features are smaller?