Map Ideas
The seven largest bodies of land are called?
List the bodies of land.
What are continents?
What is North Am, South Am, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
The center line of longitude running through Greenwich, England.
What degrees is this line?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is 0 degrees of longitude?
A 2- dimensional, or flat, representation of the Earth.
What is a Map?
A way of showing the Earth's curved surface on a flat map
What is a projection?
What is the capital of the USA?
What does it stand for?
Washington D.C.
What is the District of Columbia?
What is a scale?
Shows how much distance is represented on a map.
Imaginary lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is lines of longitude or meridians?
The part of a map that shows your directions is called a?
What is a compass rose?
What occurs when you try to put a 3-dimensional object on a flat surface...
What is distortion?
How do you find the absolute location of an area?
What is find out the longitude and latitude of an area and have the two spots meet?
What is a cartographer?
Who came up with the map with a 90 degree angle?
What is a mapmaker?
What is Mercator?
How many countries are in North America?
What is 23?
A three-dimensional, or spherical representation of the Earth.
What is the globe?
What is on a political map?
What is the change in elevation from one place to another?
What is relief?
Half the Earth.
What area would you find Australia?
What is a hemisphere?
What is Southern and Eastern?
The part of a map that shows you what the symbols mean is called a?
What is a map key / legend?
The study of Earth and the places you live is called?
What is geography?
Which of the oceans are by Georgia?
Which one of the oceans are the largest?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The imaginary lines that run east to west, parallel to the equator but measure north and south .
What are line of latitude?
The height of a physical feature above sea level
What is elevation?
The center line of latitude...
What is the equator?
The exact point where a place is located, identified by latitude and longitude coordinates...
What is absolute location?
Which two states do no touch any other state?
Hawaii and Alaska