Types of maps
Global Grid
Latit-Longitude
Climate Zones
Other
100
shows boundaries of states, countries etc.
What is a political map?
100
0 degrees latitude
Equator
100
Lines that measure east and west
What is longitude?
100
Houston is located in this climate zone.
What is the temperate zone?
100
always write this first when you are writing coordinates
What is latitude?
200
show landforms and bodies of water in a specific area
What is a physical map?
200
a set of numbers that together describe the exact location of something, such as aplace on a map
What are coordinates?
200
lines that run north and south
What is longitude?
200
line of latitude that marks the point farthest south where the sun doesn't shine at all one day each year; night lasts a full 24 hours
What is the Antarctic Circle?
200
two coordinates give me . . .
What is absolute location?
300
shows specific types of information, such as economic activity,natural resources, climate, etc.
What is a thematic map?
300
another word for lines of latitude
parallels
300
lines that measure north and south
What is latitude?
300
23 1/2 degrees North
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
300
change in the original state or an altered state; what always happens when you make a 3D globe into a 2D map
What is distortion?
400
shows natural and human-made features on the earth, often showing relief and elevation
What is a topographic map?
400
another word for lines of longitude
What are meridians?
400
0 degree latitude
What is the equator?
400
66 1/2 degrees North
What is the Arctic Circle?
400
N,S, E, W
What are cardinal directions?
500
shows how crowded a place is
What is a population density map?
500
Because one place or country would be two different days at the same time
Why isn't the International Date Line exactly 180 degrees?
500
0 degree longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
90 degrees South
What is the South Pole?
500
describes a place in comparison to other places around it
What is relative location?
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