Reading a Map
Helps you find direction
What is a compass rose?
A map that allows you to see the physical terrain
What is a physical map?
The projection distorts the size of countries
Mercator
Common Characteristics of a place
Region
What are the largest country in the world in land size
Line the runs through the center of the map horizontally
What is the equator?
Uses dots to to show population
What is Thematic map
This projection distorts the shape of the counties
Peters
Where something is at
Location
Arctic
helps you read map symbols
What is a key/ legend?
A map of the 50 States and Capitals.
Political Map
The projections is used gives the best equal shape and size
Winkle-Triple
How people changes the environment
Human and Environment interaction
Name three Man Made Wonders of the World not located in the United States
Colosseum
Chichen Itza
Christ the Redeemer
gives you the exact location
What are coordinates?
the map that includes both includes roads, cities and tourist attractions
what is a reference map?
This is the Projection that Google Maps uses
Mercator
Physical and human features that describe it
Place
What are two smallest countries in the worlds
gives you the ratio of measurements on to map to real life
What is scale?
Another name for a physical maps
what is a landform or relief map?
This is the projection prefered to be used by the United Nations
Winkle-Triple
Goods being traded from one country to another
Movement
What is the largest Mountain range in the World
Andes Mountains