A. Answer the following questions orally.
1. What is a globe?
2. What do we call a book of maps?
3. What do we call the science of map-making?
4. Who first represented the earth as a sphere?
5. Name the cardinal points of the compass.
6. Name three kinds of tools that help us read a map.
Answers
Answer:
Maps provide more information than a globe. A globe can be useful when we want to study the earth as a whole. But when we want to study only a part of the earth, as about a country or a state, globe is of little help. In such a situation only maps are useful.
Answer:
1.
Globe, sphere or ball that bears a map of the Earth on its surface and is mounted on an axle that permits rotation. The ancient Greeks, who knew the Earth to be a sphere, were the first to use globes to represent the surface of the Earth. Crates of Mallus is said to have made one in about 150 bce.
2.
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats.
3.Cartography is the art and science of making maps and charts. topographic mapTopographic map.
4.
The ancient Greeks, who knew the Earth to be a sphere, were the first to use globes to represent the surface of the Earth. Crates of Mallus is said to have made one in about 150 bce.
5.
one of the four main points of a compass: north, east, south, west.
6.
The tools needed to read a map are: Direction – North, South, East, West directions are easy to find with N symbol for North direction given on the map. Scale – You need to understand scale which is the ratio of actual distance and one shown in map.