Tools of Geography Study Guide ______1. What does relative location tell you? ______Tools of Geography Study Guide ______1. What does relative location tell you?______2. Explain map distortion. ______2. Explain map distortion. ______3. What is another name for latitude and longitude when ______they criss-cross one another? ______

4. What is another name for a line of longitude? 3. What is another name for latitude and longitude when ______they criss-cross one another? ______

5. What direction do longitude lines run? 4. What is another name for a line of longitude? ______

6. What is another name for a line of latitude? 5. What direction do longitude lines run? ______

7. What direction do lines of latitude run? 6. What is another name for a line of latitude? ______

8. What does a map scale compare? 7. What direction do lines of latitude run? ______8. What does a map scale compare? ______9. What causes the changing of the seasons? ______9. What causes the changing of the seasons? ______

______be sure to do these four things:

a. Give your directions a title.

b. Describe the relative location of the National Aquarium compared to the national Portrait Gallery using the map’s scale and compass rose.

c. Describe your route street by street. At each turn, indicate which way the person should be walking. Use 10. Your task is to help someone cardinal find the way from the directions National Aquarium to the (north, south, National Portrait Gallery. east, west).

Step 1: On the map, locate d. Describe the the National Aquarium. Draw location of the a route a person could use to National Portrait walk from there to the Gallery at the national Portrait Gallery. end of your route. Step 2: Use the route you marked to write direction for this walk. Write your direction on another piece of 10. Your task is to help someone paper, using complete find the way from the sentences. In your directions, National Aquarium to the compared to the National Portrait Gallery. national Portrait Gallery using the Step 1: On the map, locate map’s scale and the National Aquarium. Draw compass rose. a route a person could use to walk from there to the c. Describe your national Portrait Gallery. route street by street. At each Step 2: Use the route you turn, indicate marked to write direction for which way the this walk. Write your person should be direction on another piece of walking. Use paper, using complete cardinal sentences. In your directions, directions be sure to do these four (north, south, things: east, west).

a. Give your d. Describe the directions a title. location of the National Portrait b. Describe the Gallery at the relative location end of your of the National route. Aquarium