Geography
Regions
Mystery Category
Mapping
History
100
The main line of latitude
What is the Equator?
100
This borders of this type of region are based on peoples' beliefs
What is a perceptual region?
100
The misrepresentation of a shape as a result of converting the 3D object onto a 2D map.
What is map distortion?
100
The name of this type of map
What is a political map?
100
What were the two original main maritime empires?
What is Spain and Portugal?
200
The main line of longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
The borders of this region are based on set, defined boundaries
What is a formal region?
200
The name of this population pyramid
What is rapid growth population pyramid?
200
The name of this type of map
What is a physical map?
200
The European country that gained massive amounts of wealth through the mining of silver
What is Spain?
400
The purpose of a scale
What is measuring distance on a map?
400
The name of this type of region
What is a functional region?
400
This zone extends 200 nautical miles from a nation’s coastline. A country has special rights regarding exploration and use of resources in this zone.
What is an EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)?
400
(800 Bonus Points) The name of this type of map of Harlingen
What is a thematic map?
400
This luxurious commodity spurred Russia to expand East
What is fur?
600
This major line of latitude divides the world into these two hemispheres
What is the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
600
The Valley is this type of a region
What is a perceptual region?
600
(1200 Bonus Points) The birth rate of Mexico in 1965
What is high birth rate?
600
The type of map that would be most useful when hiking
What is a physical map?
600
Bonus (1200 points) The name of the economic system that emphasized exporting more than importing
What is mercantilism?
800
(1600 Bonus Points) The name of the city located at 33 degrees north and 112 degrees west
What is the city of Phoenix?
800
The name of this type of region
What is a formal region?
800
Unlike the Ottoman and Mughal empires which had limited religious tolerance policies, this empire worked to convert people to the Shi'ite denomination of Islam
What is the Safavid empire?
800
The type of map that would be most useful when navigating a state or country
What is a political map?
800
This led to the rise of slaves being used in the Americas
What is the plantation system?
1000
The names of the 5 major lines of latitude starting from the top down
1. Artic Circle
2. Tropic of Cancer
3. Equator
4. Tropic of Capricorn
5. Antarctic Circle
1000
Bonus (2000 Points) The name of this type of region
What is a functional region?
1000
Between Gambia and Brazil, this country has a larger EEZ
What is Brazil?
1000
The type of map that would be most useful when trying to determine the places with the most crime in a city
What is a thematic map?
1000
This painting shows the Mughal emperor following what policy?
What is limited religious tolerance?