Vocabulary
Earth's Land and Water
Maps
More Maps
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100
a change in the shape and size of an object
What is distortion?
100
because geographer gave different names to sections of water separated by land
Why have geographers named five oceans on Earth?
100
to show how far away a place is in real life
Why maps need a map scale?
100
title, compass rose, map key, scale, coordinate grid, and symbols
What is the parts of a map?
100
north, south, east, west
What are cardinal directions?
200
the study of Earth
What is geography?
200
the largest continent on Earth
What is Asia?
200
a map scale that used a straight line, like a number line or ruler
What is linear scale?
200
a flat model of the earth
What is a map?
200
northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest
What are intermediate directions?
300
half of the globe
What is hemisphere?
300
the smallest continent on Earth
What is Australia?
300
a type of map that shows borders between countries or states.
What is a political map?
300
a model of the Earth shaped like a sphere
What is a globe?
300
same shape as Earth, shows whole Earth, no distortion
Why the globe is a good model of Earth?
400
area at the top and bottom of a globe
What is pole?
400
the continent the United States is part of
What is North America?
400
a type of map that shows the height of the land
What is an elevation map?
400
pictures on a map that represent something in the real world
What are symbols?
400
places are distorted
Why is a map a bad model of Earth?
500
the largest areas of land
What is continent?
500
flat and easy to carry, can show part of the Earth, can show more details
Why is a map a good model of Earth?
500
a type of map that shows where mountains and plains are located
What is a physical map?
500
a map scale that uses words
What is a word scale?
500
can only see one part at a time, can only show big objects, not much details, hard to carry around
Why is the globe a bad model of Earth?
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