Map Skills
item on a map that shows what symbols and colors stand for
What is a map key
the word for a map's inaccurate, deformed shapes or sizes when trying to represent the spherical earth
What is distortion?
the name of the supercontinent when all of earth's current continents were connected as one
Name the theme: Africa is south of Europe.
What is location?
the largest country in Africa
What is Algeria?
half of the earth
What is a hemisphere?
a type of map that shows general or average weather patterns in certain areas
What is a climate map?
the idea that the earth's surface and its features rest on plates that are continuously moving
What are plate tectonics?
Name the theme: People in South Africa rely on gold mining.
What is HEI?
What is colonialism?
another name of lines of latitude
What are parallels?
A map that shows economic activity or types of resources in an area
What is a resource map?
the plate boundaries where two plates push into each other
What are convergent boundaries?
Name the theme: The US imports cacao beans from West Africa.
What is movement?
examples in Africa include cacao beans, peanuts, cotton, coffee, and tea
What are cash crops?
another name for lines of longitude
What are meridians?
What is the Winkel Tripel?
the plate boundaries where two plates move away from each other
What are divergent boundaries?
Name the theme: The Sahara Desert stretches across the countries of northern Africa.
What is region?
What is Nigeria?
What is the Prime Meridian?
the plate boundaries where two plates slide or rub past each other
What are transform boundaries?
Name the theme: Africa has mountains, deserts, and rainforests, and savannas.
What is place?
What are arid, semi-arid, tropical-dry, and tropical-wet?