Variety
The type of map a person uses when giving directions from memory.
What is a mental map?
The line that divides the earth into a lower and upper half.
What is the equator?
The method of showing the earth's round surface on a flat map
What are map projections?
The Roman geographer who believed that the earth was the center of the universe
Who was Ptolemy?
What is geocentric?
The two main branches of Geography.
What are physical and human geography?
The imaginary lines that run east to west on the globe.
What are parallels?
The most common used type of projection
What is Robinson's projection?
Argued that the sun was the center of the universe
Who was Copernicus?
The box on a map that gives the meaning of various symbols.
What is a legend?
The type of map that shows national boundaries and major cities.
What is a political map?
Distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
Type of projection used in a compact area
What is an azimuthal projection?
First geographer also known for calculating the earth's circumference.
Who was Eratosthenes?
The art of mapmaking
What is cartography?
The twelve strips of paper that are used to cover a globe.
What are gores?
The lines that make up the Great Circle
What are the prime meridian and the 180 degree meridian?
The type of map that requires a conic projection
What is a map of a wide area?
A Flemish mapmaker whose map allowed sailors to plot their course on a straight line and became the standard map of the time
Who was Mercator?
The lines that divide colors on a relief map
What are contour lines?
The tool used to determine the distance between two places on a map
What is a scale?
The city through which the Prime Meridian passes.
What is Greenwich, England?
Name the four types of distortions.
What are area, shape, distance, and direction?
Greek philosopher who improved the grid used on maps.
Who was Hipparchus?
The shape and elevation of land features such as mountains, hills and rivers.
What is topography?