Reading the Map: Homework

Read coordinates, choose the right map, and explain how the land shaped the story.

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Part A — Key Words / 4

Type the word that fits each clue.

1.
These lines run east and west and measure how far north or south of the equator a place is. What are they?Answer
2.
These lines run through the poles and measure how far east or west of the prime meridian a place is. What are they?Answer
3.
What is the study of the earth's features and of how people live with them?Answer
4.
Which kind of map shows mountains, rivers and seas?Answer

Short answers. Think about why.

1.
Which kind of map shows borders, countries and capitals?Answer
2.
Which kind of map shows one kind of information, like climate or trade routes?Answer
3.
In 41° N, 29° E, which number is the longitude?Answer
4.
What is the largest latitude north of the equator, in degrees?Answer
5.
What is the line at 0 degrees of longitude called?Answer

Two cities, and the land.

1.
Rome is at about 42° N, 12° E. Constantinople is at about 41° N, 29° E.
a. Which city is farther north?Answer
b. Which city is farther east?Answer
c. A third city sits at 41° N, 12° E. It shares a latitude with which city, and a longitude with which?Same latitude asSame longitude as
2.
A trader wants to move goods across the plains of northern Europe. What natural feature carried goods faster than any road?Answer
3.
Why could one city on the Bosporus control the sea routes between two continents?Answer

Answer each one in one sentence. You mark these yourself against the key.

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Notes

Part A — the answers.

Part B — the answers.

Part C — the answers.

a. Rome. 42 is more than 41. b. Constantinople. 29 is more than 12. c. Same latitude as Constantinople, same longitude as Rome.
Rivers.
It sat on a narrow strait.

Part D — what a good answer includes.

Answers vary. A good answer says a physical map shows the natural land, so it tells you why an army or a trader could or couldn't cross it, and a political map shows borders and who ruled.
Answers vary. A good answer names a place and its land: Constantinople on the Bosporus, Baghdad on the Tigris, the Bedouin in the Arabian Desert, or the Pyrenees marking the Franks' line with Muslim Spain.