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The study of the people and events of the past.
What is history?
100
The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
100
A map which shows landforms and bodies of water.
What is a physical map?
100
Maps that focus on specific ideas or themes.
What are thematic maps?
100
A spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
200
A person who studies the past.
What is a historian?
200
A loss of accuracy.
What is distortion?
200
The cardinal directions are north, east, south, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
200
Computer or Internet-based mapping technology.
What is GIS?
200
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth’s surface.
What is a map?
300
A firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period.
What is a primary source ?
300
A map projection that makes areas near the poles look bigger than they are.
What is a Mercator Projection?
300
Altitude, also called relief.
What is elevation?
300
A small, human-made spacecraft that orbit Earth to perform any number of tasks.
What is a satellite?
300
Northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest
What are intermediate directions?
400
The document that is the basis for the United States government.
What is the Constitution?
400
A map projection which shows most distances, sizes, and shapes quite accurately.
What is a Robinson Projection?
400
A line of longitude that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
A way to map our 3-D Earth on a 2-D flat surface
What is a projection?
400
Compares a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on Earth.
What is a scale bar?
500
Where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, and environments.
What is spatial?
500
A system that uses a network of earth-orbiting satellites to pinpoint absolute location.
What is a Global Positioning System (GPS)?
500
One half of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
500
A geographer who creates maps.
What is cartographer?
500
Imaginary lines that show distances north or south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
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