Map Symbols
Pointer showing directions
What is a compass rose?
A map showing automobile routes
What is a road map?
A synonym for legend.
What is the key?
A gazeteer
What is a geographic dictionary ?
An imaginary line dividing the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
Scale
What is a drawing that helps you estimate the actual distance?
This map shows one hour increments of time
What is a Time Zone Map?
A drawing that helps you estimate actual distance.
What is the scale?
Refers to all the different kinds of bodies of water easily found on the globe.
What is the hydrosphere ?
Parallels
What are lines of latitude?
A box that explains the maps symbols
What is a key or legend?
Political Map
What is a map that shows cities, states, and countries?
Cardinal directions
What are north, south, east, and west?
200 - Can you believe you actually committed to this much!
The number of hours you partook in Geography from 7-10! WOAH!
A circle with a star in the middle
What is a capital city?
A map that shows the height in elevation or topography of an area
What is a topographic map?
Intermediate directions
What are northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest?
This was the tallest Mountain before Mt Everest was discovered.
What is Mt Everest? (Still the tallest mountain, just hadn't been discovered - lol)
A solid line on a road map
What is a major roadway?
A type of physical map, showing landforms and bodies of water, with shading to demonstrate physical features
What is a relief map?
You would use this to determine the steepness of a slope
What is gradient?
Unlike every other continent on Earth, Antarctica has no official standard time zones. How many time zones are there?
What is 24 ?