What is Geography?
This word comes from two roots meaning "earth" and "written description".
What is "geography"?
Who is Eratosthenes?
This cylindrical projection consists of accurate shapes, constant compass directions and distortion in area and distance.
What is the Mercator Projection?
The earth, when divided, has four of these.
What are hemispheres?
This map refers to the height and depth of land features in relation to surrounding land.
What is a Relief Map?
The two main branches of geography.
What is Physical and Human Geography?
He wanted to find a shortcut to the East by sailing westward.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This cylindrical projection is often called an "interrupted projection".
What is Goode's projection?
These imaginary lines are measured north/south, run east to west, and are also called parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
This map uses special lines to indicate the shape and elevation of the landforms shown.
What is a Topographic Map?
These are the five fundamental themes of geography.
What is Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, and Place?
A Flemish cartographer who published a map still in use today.
Who is Mercator?
This projection touches a single point and is most useful for compact areas.
What is the Planar (Azimuthal) projection?
These imaginary lines are measured east/west, run north to south, and are often called meridians.
What are lines of Longitude?
This map shows state and national boundaries, cities and capitals.
What is a Political Map?
History is the study of ________, while geography is the study of space and place.
What are events in time?
He published an argument for the sun-centered theory of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
This cylindrical projection minimizes all 4 types of distortions.
What is the Robinson's projection?
This 180-degree meridian lies directly opposite the prime meridian and is actually a continuation of the same line.
What is a Great Circle?
This map shows natural resources, economic activities and where various industries are located.
What is an Economic (Resource) Map?
This method of studying geography examines one region at a time.
What is Regional Geography?
A famous Roman geographer who promoted a geocentric theory of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
This type of projection touches an entire line of latitude and is most useful for wide regions.
What is the Conic projection?
The distance from one degree of latitude to the next.
What is about 69 miles?
This map shows boundaries between landowners.
What is a Plat Map?