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Maps
Vocabulary
Fields of Geography
Continents
100
out of latitude and longitude, it is the one that stays the same distance apart.
What is latitude
100
This is the shape of the earth?
What is a sphere?
100
This is another word for latitude.
What is parallel.
100
It's what cartographers do.
What is "make maps"
100
This is the number you get when you add the number of oceans and continents and multiply it by 2.
What is 22
200
We live in these (two) hemispheres
What are Western and Northern?
200
All flat maps have some of this that makes places look larger or smaller than they really are.
What is distortion?
200
This is the name of the longitude that passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian
200
These people study people and populations.
What are demographers
200
This is the name of the Continent North of Africa
What is Europe?
300
This Ocean is the biggest, but it is getting smaller each year.
What is the Pacific
300
This is the name of the map feature that shows North, South, East, and West
What is a Compass Rose
300
This is the name of the latitude at 0 degrees.
What is the equator
300
We study weather patterns?
What are meteorologists?
300
These two continents are only located in the Western Hemisphere
What are N & S America.
400
This is the largest island in the world
What is Greenland?
400
The scale of a map is used to calculate this
What are distances?
400
These give the shortest route between two places on a globe.
What are great circles?
400
We study earthquakes, of course.
What are seismologists
400
The two continents are only in the southern hemisphere.
What are Antarctica and Australia?
500
If I live at 45 S and 91 W, this continent would be closest to me.
What is South America?
500
This type of map is able to show a part of the earth without much distortion. However, it can't be used to show the whole earth at once.
What is a conical map
500
The dairy belt would be considered this type of region
What is formal
500
It's what the G in USGS stands for.
What is Geologic?
500
This chain of mountains separates Asia and Europe
What are the Ural mountains.
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