Geography Tools
This tool uses satellites to provide images of earth?
What is GPS
This type of map shows boundaries and locations of countries.
What is a Political Map?
This is the largest continent by area.
What is Asia?
This is the time zone for Greenwich, England.
What is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
This is the line that divides the Earth into North and South hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This device helps navigate using the Earth's magnetic field?
What is a compass.
This type of map shows elevation and terrain.
What is a topographic map?
This continent is known for its vast deserts and the Nile River.
What is Africa?
There are this many time zones in the mainland United States.
What is 4?
This term refers to lines that run north to south around the globe.
What is Latitude?
This is the map that shows the physical features of an area.
What is a physical map?
This type of map shows weather patters.
What is a meteorological map?
This continent is home to the Amazon Rain Forest.
What is South America?
This is the time zone 8 hours behind GMT.
What is PST (Pacific Time Zone)
This term refers to lines the run east to west around the globe.
What is Longitude?
This technology allows one to analyze geographic data.
What is GIS.
This type of map focuses on themes such as population density.
What is a Thematic map?
This continent is often referred to as 'Down Under.'
What is Australia?
This happens to time zones at daylight savings time.
What is shifting one hour?
This is the map feature that shows the relationship between distance on the map and actual distance.
What is a Scale Bar?
This is the terms for the study of Earth's landscapes and environments.
What is Geography?
This type of map displays roads and routes of transportation.
What is a road map?
This continent is entirely in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is North America?
This time zone is observed in most of Canada and the Eastern United States.
What is EST (Eastern Standard Time)
This is the map tool that provides the information about symbols and colors used.
What is a legend or key?