On The Map
What part of a map displays the cardinal directions?
What is the compass?
What kind of data describes things that are factual rather than debatable?
What is Quantitative?
What is the term for the science of mapmaking?
Which map type shows human-created boundaries?
What is Political?
What absolute or relative term describes this example?: 27.9856 degrees North, 106.8751 degrees West
What is Absolute Location?
What part of a map tells you what the colors and symbols used in it mean?
What is the Map Legend/Key?
What kind of data is collected using surveys?
What is both qualitative and quantitative?
What kind of map uses different patterns to show the spatial distribution of data?
What is Choropleth?
Which map type shows natural geographic features like rivers?
What is Physical?
What absolute or relative term describes this example?: Southeast of London and North of Paris
What is Relative Location?
What lines indicate the distance of something north or south of the Equator?
What are the lines of latitude?
What kind of data results in findings that are expressed narratively?
What is Qualitative?
What kind of map shows the size of a place according to some specific statistic?
What is Cartogram?
Which map type uses shading to illustrate data?
What is Choropleth?
What absolute or relative term describes this example?: Five minutes away
What is Relative Distance?
What map feature can be communicated as a ratio or displayed as a line?
What is the Map scale?
What kind of data is used by businesses and governments to make decisions?
What is both qualitative and quantitative?
In which map projection are size and shape preserved but longitude lines converge at only one pole?
What is Conic?
Which map type indicates relative magnitude of some value for a geographic region in which the symbol varies in proportion to data?
What is a graduated symbols map/proportional symbols map?
What absolute or relative term describes this example?: Take a left, go forward, and take a right
What is Relative Direction?
What is the name of the imaginary line that passes through Greenwich, England?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What kind of data is collected through artifact analysis?
What is Qualitative?
What was Carl Sauer’s approach to explaining human-environmental relations called?
What is Cultural Ecology?
Which map type shows details of land ownership?
What is a Plat?
What absolute or relative term describes this example?: Go North for five miles, then East for two miles
What is Absolute Distance and Direction?