Geomorphology and Hydrology
Cultural Cartography
Global Landmarks and Locales
Map Skills and Spatial Thinking
Culture and Socialization
100

The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of this ocean.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

This term is used for a country's official record of its population, usually including demographics and social data?

What is a census?

100

This country is home to the world's most populous city, Tokyo (in terms of metro area)?

What is Japan?

100

A person who designs, draws, and illustrates maps is called this.

What is a cartographer?

100

This term refers to a group's standards for distinguishing between good and bad, or desirable and undesirable.

What are values?

200

The process where water vapor turns into liquid water, forming clouds, is called this. 

What is condensation?

200

This event is the major factor that led to a significant refugee crisis in Syria starting around 2011.

What is the Syrian Civil War?

200

This long, narrow country in South America runs along the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

What is the country of Chile?

200

We collectively know the West Coast and East Coast of the United States. This state, with 820 miles of coastline, is know as the Third Coast.

What is Wisconsin!?

200

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture is known as this.

What is ethnocentrism?

300

This is the term for a large, flat, elevated area of land.

What is a plateau?

300
You might reference this type of map if you entered a fishing tournament.

What is a bathymetric map? (Contour Map acceptable)

300

This geographical feature located in South Africa is also the southernmost point of the continent of Africa.

What is the Cape of Good Hope?

300

The Hodag is a mythical creature that inhabits portions of Wisconsin and is known for its sharp teeth, horns, glowing red eyes, and general frightful disposition. This city's high school has claimed it as its mascot.

What is the city of Rhinelander?

300

The United States' historical policies toward indigenous populations could be described as this.

What is cultural genocide? (Also accepted; assimilation)

400

The Sahara Desert is primarily this type of climate classification, known for high temperatures and very low precipitation.

What is arid?

400

The Green Revolution of the mid-20th century involved new technology and practices to dramatically increase this.

What is agricultural production? 

400

The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of this country.

What is Australia?

400

This sea is the only known to humanity that does NOT contain water.

What is the Sea of Tranquility?

400

This term, known for its reference to fearing other cultures, has been a particular component of creating the "flashpoint" in Palestine/Israel. 

What is xenophobia?

500

This type of tectonic plate boundary is characterized by two plates sliding past each other horizontally.

What is a transform boundary?

500

This Colorado area cryptid was originally designed to keep prospectors away from silver-rich deposits found near what is now the town of Silverton.

What is the Slide Rock Bolter?

500
Name one of the four cities in which you would find a U.N. Headquarters.

What is New York City, Geneva, Nairobi, or Vienna?

500

This type of map is designed to show a particular connected with a specific component of geographic area. (Population density, climate, income levels, etc.)

What is a thematic map? (Also accepted; Demographic)
500

A society that is governed by (and/or) consists of people of low intelligence is called this term.

What is an Idiocracy?
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