GEOGRAPHY ATLAS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024

GEOGRAPHY ATLAS QUESTIONS AND ANSWER S WITH SOLUTIONS 20 24 Equator - ANSWER An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole Prime Meridian - ANSWER The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. Eastern Hemisphere - ANSWER The hemisphere east of the Prime Meridian. Western Hemisphere - ANSWER The hemisphere west of the Prime Meridian. Northern Hemisphere - ANSWER The hemisphere north of the equator Southern Hemisphere - ANSWER The hemisphere south of the equator Tropics - ANSWER The area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn Acrtic - ANSWER The regions around the North Pole Temperate - ANSWER Mild, and moderate Mercator Map Projection - ANSWER Accurately shows shape and direction, but distorts distance and size of land masses. Equal Area Projection - ANSWER Distorts shapes around edges of map Compromise Map Projection - ANSWER A map projection that is neither conformal nor equivalent but a balance of those, or other, map properties