Thinking Spatially

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This Thinking Spatially exercise is designed to provide you with experience in the interpretation of maps and diagrams for you to better understand the spatial patterns in Earth's physical systems.

This activity contains 2 questions.

It is important to be able to identify these five major parallels.

The letters A through E appear on an image associated with this question.

This question presents 5 items numbered 1.1 through 1.5. Each item is presented with a pulldown menu containing the letters A through E. For each item below, use the pull-down menu to select the letter that labels the correct part of the image.

1.1 Which line corresponds to the Antarctic Circle?
1.2 Which line corresponds to the tropic of Cancer?
1.3 Which line corresponds to the equator?
1.4 Which line corresponds to the Arctic Circle?
1.5 Which line corresponds to the tropic of Capricorn?

Match the dates to the correct Earth position in space.

The letters A through D appear on an image associated with this question.

This question presents 4 items numbered 2.1 through 2.4. Each item is presented with a pulldown menu containing the letters A through D. For each item below, use the pull-down menu to select the letter that labels the correct part of the image.

2.1 June 21	[hint]
2.2 September 22	[hint]
2.3 December 21	[hint]
2.4 March 20	[hint]

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