Maps & Problems
Map Tiles & Symbols
Longitude and Latitude
A Half or Whole World
Round vs. Flat
100
A precise point on the earth
What is absoulute location?
100
Point that label north, south, east, and west
What is cardinal directions?
100
Global grid system of imaginary lines that run east and west (need to complete name)
What are parallels of latitude?
100
Geographers divide the Earth into two halves
What are the Hemispheres?
100
Projection shows directions between places accurately, but distorts the size of continents
What is the Mercator Projection?
200
A round Earth on a flat map
What is distortion?
200
Symbols used on a map
What is map legends or map keys?
200
Reads the distance on a map
What is the map scale?
200
The equator divides the Earth into
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
200
Takes bits of the ocean out of projection to show how the continents compare in size
What is Goode's Projection?
300
Particular way of showing Earth on a flat surface
What is map projections?
300
One very useful type of grid is
What is the system of latitude and longitude?
300
The most important north-south grid line
What is the prime meridian?
300
The Western and Eastern Hemispheres are divided by these two different lines
What are the prime meridian and the International Date line?
300
Projection that shows sizes of places correctly, but distort the poles
What is Eckert IV Projection?
400
Location of one place compared to another
What is relative location?
400
Lines showing northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest
What is intermediate directions?
400
These grid lines are half-circles that run from the North Pole to the South Pole (need complete name)
What are the meridians of longitude lines?
400
Name the Northern and Southern lines where the sun's rays ever beat straight down
What is the Tropic of Cancer (north) & Tropic of Capricorn (south)?
400
Projection good for showing areas around the North adn South poles
What is the Lambert Projection?
500
They try to understand the way people interact with the world around them
Who are Geographers?
500
This grid allows you to locate any place on Earth with a simple number code
What is a global grid?
500
The meeting point numbers of latitude and longitude
What are coordinates?
500
Named for the area between the tropical nad polar zones
What is the temperate zone?
500
Area between the North and South poles
What are the polar zones?
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