Fundamental Vocabulary
A specific location given personal meaning, human emotion, and identity.
What is a Place?
These imaginary lines run East-to-West and measure distance North or South of the Equator.
What are Latitude Lines (Parallels)?
Because the Earth completes a 360 degree rotation every 24 hours, this many degrees of longitude equal 1 hour of time change.
What is 15 degrees?
List three of the four mandatory map elements.
What are compass rose, title, legend/ key, scale?
A viewpoint looking straight down at Earth from high above at a 90 degree angle, such as satellite imagery.
What is a Vertical View?
A map designed to display a specific data set, such as climate zones or population density.
What is a Thematic Map?
These lines run North-to-South and measure distance East or West of the Prime Meridian.
What are Longitude Lines (Meridians)?
When traveling East across longitude lines, local time does this.
What is gets later/ adds hours?
This type of map covers a small real-world area with high levels of detail.
What is a Large-Scale Map?
A photograph of a mountain range taken from ground level represents this perspective.
What is a Horizontal View?
The visible combination of natural features (relief, vegetation) and human architecture in an area.
What is Landscape?
When writing geographic coordinates, this measurement must always be listed first.
What is Latitude?
If the time at the Prime Meridian is 12PM, the local time at 120 degrees E longitude is this.
What is 8:00PM?
What type of map covers a vast global region with minimal detail?
What is Small-scale map?
An angled viewpoint that displays both the top and side elevations of structures
What is an Oblique View?
An angled, 3D-style viewpoint showing both the top and side elevation of structures.
What is Oblique View?
These are the four collateral directions.
What are northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest?
If it is 10:00PM on Tuesday at the Prime Meridian, the local time and day at 60 degrees W longitude is this.
What is 6:00PM on Tuesday.
The map scale type you should select if you need to plan a walking tour of your school campus
What is a Large-Scale Map?
The type of landscape created when human labor permanently alters the physical environment.
What is Cultural Landscape?
The continuous physical area shaped by the interaction of nature and human work.
What is Geographic Space?
The directional heading a plane travels when flying directly from (30 degrees N, 60 degrees E) to (30 degrees S, 120 degrees W).
What is southwest?
Time zone boundaries run North-to-South along lines of longitude because of this movement of the Earth.
What is Earth's Rotation/ west-to-east rotation?
What map feature shows the relationship between distance on a map and real-world distance?
Scale ratio
What process occurs when human labor permanently alters natural soil, relief, and vegetation to build cities and schools?
What is Transforming natural space?