Test Questions

1. What does UTC stand for? Coordinated Universal Time
2. What is the physical characteristic of a place? Site
3. Who was the first person to make a world map? Eratosthenes
4. What are the lines of latitude? C
    A. Meridians
    B. Longitude
    C. Parallels
    D. Straight
5. Many locations are important because they... are accessible to other locations
6. Define time zones? A region of earth that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes
7. How do you right time zone math( hint: what divided by what) 360 divided by 24
8. What abilities do humans have to do to maps? Modify the characteristics of a sight
9. Why do time zone lines on a map begin straight, then cut somewhere along the line? To define the borders of states and countries
10. Which map are we most likely to better understand? A
      A. Mercator map
      B. Griffins map
      C. Eratosthenes map
      D. Peters map


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