Question

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1. What do the curved blue lines wrapping around Earth represent?
2. The geomagnetic poles move over time. What causes this to happen?
3. How do Earth's geomagnetic poles differ from its geomagnetic poles?
4. Mars has a week magnetic field. How do you think the conditions on the surface of Mars compare with those on Earth? What would that mean for astronauts traveling to Mars in the future?

Answer 1

Maps can convey a lot of different types of information. They can tell you where you are or they can tell you something about a location. Earth scientists often use maps that have coordinates so that they can locate themselves or the features they are interested in. Different types of maps show different things well. For example, some types of maps show the tropical areas really well but do a terrible job depicting the polar regions.