Map Projections
These lines make up the grid of a map.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
This theme refers to how people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
What is movement
Name at least one feature of a physical map
mountain, valley, lake, river, deserts
North, South, East, West
What is the four cardinal directions
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is globe
Half a globe.
What is hemisphere?
This theme explores how people adapt to and use their surroundings.
What is Human Environment Interaction
Name at least one feature of a political map.
countries, states, capitals
The study of the Earth and the ways people interact with the Earth.
What is geography
10 Years
What is a Decade?
Title, compass rose, key, scale, grid
What is the 5 parts of a map?
This theme explores how geographers use directions such as north, south, east, and west to identify where a city, state, country is found.
What is Location
Cylindrical, azimuthal, and conic designs of these.
What is map projections?
180th Meridian.
What is the international date line?
Ancient time period formerly know as before Christ.
What is Before Common Era?
A two dimensional projection of the earth.
What is map projection?
This theme divides the world into geographic units such as cities, states, and countries- or such things as "The South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East”.
What is region
Name the five oceans.
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean
An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics.
What is regions?
PLERM
What is place, location, environment and human interaction, region, and movement?
A representation of Earth that does not produce distortion.
What is a globe?
This theme explores human and/or physical features such as the population of a city or the climate of particular area.
What is place
Name the seven continents.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
Smaller lines of latitude and longitude that provide detailed locations.
What is degrees, minutes, and seconds?
What grades are Mr. Ferguson's daughters in?
8th and 12th grades.