Types of Maps
Maps that show human-created boundaries such as countries, states, and cities.
What is POLITICAL map?
The explanatory feature on a map that tells you what the symbols and colors mean.
What is LEGEND/KEY?
The geographic theme that explores how people, goods, and ideas travel from one location to another.
What is MOVEMENT?
A very dry biome with extreme temperatures (usually hot days and cold nights) and minimal vegetation.
What is DESERT?
The study of how human culture interacts with and shapes the landscape.
What is CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY?
A visualization that uses color intensity to represent data density or values across a geographical area (often looking like "hot spots").
What is HEAT MAP?
A tool on a map showing cardinal directions (North, South, East, West
What is a COMPASS ROSE?
The theme that looks at how people affect their environment and how the environment affects people.
What is HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
A hot, humid biome located near the equator with dense vegetation and the highest biodiversity in the world.
What is TROPICAL RAINFOREST?
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data using layer
What is GIS? (geographic information system)
Maps that use contour lines to show the elevation and shape of the land
Measures how far NORTH or SOUTH a place is. Horizontal "lines" on the map.
What is LATITUDE?
Areas of the Earth that share common physical or cultural characteristics.
A biome dominated by grasses rather than large shrubs or trees; examples include the American Great Plains.
What is GRASSLAND?
Explaining where something is based on its relationship to other places (e.g., "next to the grocery store").
What is RELATIVE LOCATION?
Maps that specifically show how many people live in a given area per square mile or kilometer.
What is LONGITUDE?
Where a point is on a map.
What is LOCATION?
A cold, dry, treeless biome found in the Arctic, characterized by a layer of permanently frozen soil (permafrost).
What is TUNDRA?
Information collected by a government every few years to officially count the population and record details about the people.
What is CENSUS DATA?
Maps that use different shading, coloring, or symbols to show the average values of a property or quantity in those areas.
What is CHOROPLETH MAP?
A way to represent the curved, 3D surface of the Earth on a flat, 2D surface (which always causes some distortion).
What is MAP PROJECTION?
The human and physical characteristics that make an area unique.
What is PLACE?
A massive subarctic forest dominated by coniferous (evergreen) trees like pines and spruces; experiences long, harsh winters.
What is TAIGA/BOREAL FOREST?
Statistical data about the characteristics of a population, such as age, race, and income.
What is DEMOGRAPHIC DATA?