Using and Atlas
Dates and Timelines
Scale and Elevation
Continents
Latitude, Longitude, and grab bag
100
The average number of people who live in an area
What is Population Density
100
What the letters AD in a date stand for
What is anno domini?
100
Name the instrument that can be used to measure how far a person has traveled.
What is an odometer?
100
This is the largest continent
What is Asia?
100
Lines on a map that run parallel to the equator
What are lines of latitude?
200
A strip of land that connects two continents is called
What is an isthmus
200
A period of 100 years
What is a century
200
The purpose of a map scale is...
What is to show the relationship between map distance and real distance?
200
This continent has the Amazon Rainforest
What is South America?
200
Lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole
What are lines of longitude
300
Moisture that fall's to the Earth's surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
What a timeline is used to show
What is the order of events?
300
Contour lines on a map show...
What is elevation?
300
These are the 7 continents
What are North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Antarctica, and Africa
300
The imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles
What is the equator?
400
This type of map shows major cities, and capitals
What is a political map?
400
What the letters B.C. stand for
What is Before Christ?
400
All points on Earth are measured from?
What is sea level?
400
No people live here, but some scientists visit to study the weather or animals there
What is Antarctica?
400
The shape of the Earth
What is a sphere?
500
If you were drilling for oil you would look at this type of map.
What is a resource map?
500
The person who was responsible for introducing us to the present day timelines in 525 A.D.
Who is Dionysius the Little?
500
Name two ways elevation can be shown on a map
What are color relief and contour lines?
500
France, Germany, and Poland are located here
What is Europe?
500
People who make maps
What are cartographers?
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