Map Skills
This is the part of the map that lets the viewer know what colors and symbols stand for.
What is the KEY or LEGEND?
This projection is one of the most common ones used today. It is especially accurate for directions which is why it's basic principles are part of Google Maps.
What is the Mercator?
Earth's orbit around the sun is also known as this:
What is the REVOLUTION of the Earth around the sun?
What is revolves around the sun?
The name of the supercontinent from millions of years ago where all landmasses were connected.
What is Pangea?
This type of map shows specific data related to elevation or how high or low different areas are.
What are topographic maps?
AKA
Contour Maps
These are the names of INTERMEDIATE directions.
Northwest
Northeast
Southwest
Southeast
This projection is known for having equal size/area of the different landmasses, however, the shape is not accurate.
What is the Peter's Projection?
While it is winter in Brazil, it is this season in Europe.
What is summer?
This type of boundary is when tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
What is a DIVERGENT boundary?
A climate graph shows these two basic elements of weather over a period of time.
What are the average
Temperature
and
Precipitation?
What are the Equator and the Prime Meridian?
All 2-D Projections of the globe/Earth on a flat surface have this.
What is distortion?
This is the reason we have different seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt on its axis?
This type of boundary is when plates are sliding against each other. As a result of this sliding together, this area is prone to earthquakes.
What are TRANSFORM boundaries?
These 2 "special" lines of latitude mark the beginning of the temperate zones and are found at 23.5 degrees North and 23.5 degrees south.
What is the
Tropic of Cancer --> 23.5 N
Tropic of Capricorn --> 23.5 S
The names of the 4 oceans.
What are:
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
On this type of map, the latitude and longitude lines run perpendicular to each other.
What is the Mercator Projection?
Or
What is the Peters Projection?
This is responsible for Earth having night and day times.
Earth's ROTATION on its axis.
This type of boundary is where mountains are formed.
What is CONVERGENT boundaries?
These are 4 different types of PRECIPITATION.
What are rain, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain?
5 listed in answer--only 4 needed for points.
These are the names given of the three different latitude zones.
What are:
Lower--> Tropical Zone/Tropics
Middle-->Temperate Zones
High--> Polar Zones--Arctic (Circle) Zones
This type of map is great in terms of accuracy of size and shape but not helpful for calculating accurate distances.
What is an Interrupted Projection?
What is false?
These are the two parts that make up the outermost layer of the Earth.
What are
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
?
The weather in southern India tends to be warm year round but rain is strongest in the summer months.
What is climate?