Map Types
Map Tools
Lines...
Map Jobs and Study
Continents & Oceans
100
This map shows lakes, rivers and mountains.
What is a Natural Map or Natural Boundaries Map?
100
This specialized magnet always points north.
What is a compass?
100
Lines that run parallel with the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
100
This the art of making maps.
What is a cartography?
100
The southerly continent named after Amerigo Vespucci.
What is South America?
200
This map shows the man made boundaries around countries.
What is a Political Map?
200
This part of a map tells you North, South, East, and West.
What is the Compass Rose?
200
Lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of Longitude?
200
This is a scientist who studies the Earth.
Who is a geographer?
200
This is the largest continent that houses China.
What is Asia?
300
This map shows information about a place as it was in the past.
What is a historical map?
300
This sophisticated series of satellites helps us tell our exact location.
What is the Global Positioning System?
300
This is line is 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
This is the study of places on Earth.
What is geography?
300
This is the largest ocean between America and Japan.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This map represents the world most accurately.
What is a globe?
400
This type of map is easiest to view but its projection is flawed.
What is a Mercator Projection?
400
This line is 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
400
This person makes maps.
Who is a cartographer? (To whomever got his one...you are welcome for the easy points!)
400
This ocean is East of Africa and west of Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
This map shows regions with the same basic customs, beliefs and languages.
What is a Cultural Map?
500
This interrupted map projection shows the earth peeled like an orange skin.
What is Goode's Interrupted Projection?
500
This is the line that if you cross, lets you go back or forward in time by one day!
What is the International Dateline?
500
This person studies natural rock formations.
What is a geologist? (That was the hard one for this one.)
500
This is the ocean between America and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
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