Name that Map
This type of map shows how the land looks. It depicts mountains, rivers, plains, and lakes.
What is a physical map?
Maps show these four things.
What are direction, distance, shape, and size?
The equator splits the earth into these:
What is the Northern and Southern Hemisphere?
Map makers use this to show direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
When it is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere it is this in the Southern Hemisphere:
What is Fall?
This type of map shows how humans have divided the surface of the earth into countries, states, and other political divisions.
What is a political map?
This is a way of showing the rounded earth on a flat piece of paper.
What is map projection?
This time zone is the farthest east.
What is Eastern Standard?
Maps usually have this to show what distance on the earth is represented by a certain distance on the map.
What is a scale?
Direction, distance, shape, and size can all be shown correctly at the same time ONLY on this:
What is a globe?
This type of map emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information about an area.
What is a special-purpose map?
This type of projections hows how the earth would look if a piece of paper were wrapped to form a tube or cylinder around the globe.
What is a Cylindrical Projection?
This time zone is the farthest west.
What is the Pacific?
The location of a place on the earth as compared to some other place is called this:
What is relative location?
When it is 12 noon where you are, it is this time two time zones to the west:
What is 2?
This type of map is a person's internal image of a place.
What is a mental map?
This type of projection comes from the idea of projection the globe onto a plane that is touching the globe at one point.
What is a planar projection?
These are the four time zones
What are Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern?
Depending on other people is called this:
What is interdependence?
The legend of a map tells what these mean:
What are symbols?
This type of map may use colors and shading to show how flat or rugged the land surface is. It is a kind of physical map.
What is a relief map?
This type of projection provides a balance between the size and shape of land areas. It is used in most general reference maps today.
What is the Winkel Tripel Projection?
It takes the earth this many hours to rotate on its axis once.
What is 24 hours?
This is another name for the Prime Meridian.
What is 0 degrees longitude?
This is a tracking system composed of satellites, receivers, and ground stations.
What is the Global Positioning System?