Review Cartography skills

1. What direction is point B from point A?

2. Using points A and B as a baseline locate point C.

3. Starting at point C use one direction and one distance to locate point D.

4. How many meters from C to E?

5, Use an azimuth and a direction to locate point C from point B.

6. What point is south of B?

7. What point is west of B?

8. What direction is D from C?

9. What direction is A from C?

10. What direction is C from A?

11. What direction is C from E?

12. What are the dimensions of the house?

13. Which of the following two are in the Northern Hemisphere?

Arctic Circle, Antarctica Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn

note symbols for some of the answers change depending on the browser...

1. angle

a. device to measure angles on paper

2. parallel

b. device to sight angles on Earth

3. ray

c. device to sight angles generated from earth up

4. line

d. «

5. triangle

e. 1 cm = 1 km

6. protractor

f. --

7. key

g. north

8. perpendicular

h. .

9. clinometer

i. instrument that ponts to magnetic north

10. transit

j. ∆

11. equator

k. a small unitof angular measure

12. scale

l. Ð

13. compass

m. -

14. point

n. //

15. line segment

o. this tells what the symbols on a map stand for

16. degree

p. an imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half north to south

17. direction

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