Map Tools
Lines on the map that run east to west
What is latitude?
A map which shows man made structures or borders
What is a political map?
A ____ is a tool to show the geographical features of a place
What is a map?
The exact location of something
What is absolute location?
GPS stands for
What is Global Positioning System?
Lines on a map that run north to south
What is longitude?
A map which shows physical features
A physical map?
A map of a city is a ________ scale map
What is small?
Where a place is compared to another place
What is relative location?
GPS is this type of technology
What is geospatial technology?
Symbol which tells you the cardinal directions on a map
A map which gives specific information
Thematic map?
A map of a country is a ________ scale map
What is large?
The starting point for measuring longtitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
Satellites gather information in a process called
What is remote sensing?
Tool which shows how a measured space on the map relates to actual distances
What is a scale bar?
A map of Mexico showing all 31 states and Mexico city is this kind of map
What is a political map?
A ___________ is someone who studies Earth and its people, places and environments.
What is a geographer?
Globes are more accurate than flat maps for this reason
What is flat maps cannot accurately depict a spherical shape?
This would happen to grocery stores if GPS stopped working
What is they would struggle to stock shelves with products?
Mapping tool which explains symbols, colors and lines on a map
What is a key?
A map of Mexico showing population distribution is this kind of map
What is a thematic map?
Creating cities, tilling soil, and burning fossil fuels are all examples of how humans can affect ______________
What is the environment?
The first name of the inventor of the Mercator map?
Who is Gerardus?
What are a space war or a solar storm?