Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: x MAPS, 1. Define a map. What does a map represent? P. 10. 2. In what direction is the top of the map supposed to be ? P. 10. 3. What direction is the bottom of the map ? The right hand? The left hand? What are these directions called? P. 10. HEMISPHERES. 1. Define Hemisphere ? How many hemispheres are there ? P. 10. 2. Which is the Eastern Hemisphere, and what does it represent? P. 11. 3. What is the Western, and what does it represent? P. 11. 4. Which Hemisphere contains most land? P. 11. 5. Which most water? P. 11. G. For what is the Eastern Continent distinguished?.- P. 11, 7. For what is the Western Continent noted? P. 11. SIZE AND MOTIONS OF THE EARTII, EQUATOR AND CIRCLES. 1. What is the size of the Earth? What is the axis of the Earth? P. 11. 2. What motions has the Earth? P. 11, 3. What is the Equator? How does it divide the Earth ? P. 11. 4. What are the Tropics, and why are they 23£ from the Equator? P. 11, 5. What are the Polar Circles? Why are they 23£ from the Poles? P. 11. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE, 1. What is Longitude ? How is it represented on the map ? P. 12. 2. What are these lines called? What do the figures attached to them show? P. 12. 3. Where do we begin to reckon the degrees of latitude ? P. 12. 4. How many degrees between the Equator and each Pole ? 5. What is said of places either North or South of the Equator? P. 12. 6. What of places on the Equator? P. 12. 7. What is the length of each degree of latitude? P. 12. 8. How then may ve learn the distance of a place from the Equator? P. 12. LONGITUDE. 1. What is Longitude ? What are Meridians ? P. 12, 2. From what meridian do we usually reckon Longitude ? P. 12. 3. What is the custom of different nations in this respect ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.