Vocabulary
Globes
Maps
Miscellaneous
100
The study of a place.
What is Geography?
100
Used to discover land shapes before spacecrafts were invented.
What is a sailboat?
100
Used to show details of the earth's surface. Easy to carry and store.
What is a flat map?
100
The one to whom we give praise to for the amazing designs and provisions for our life and hearts.
Who is the Creator?
200
The art of making maps
What is cartography?
200
Represents the earth most correctly.
What is a globe?
200
Correctly shows land along the equator.
What is the Mercator Projection?
200
Provided for us to enjoy.
What are resources?
300
The study of the past.
What is History?
300
The first geographer that believed the world was a sphere.
Who is Eratosthenes?
300
This projection cuts and flattens the earth like an orange peel.
What is Goode's Interrupted Projection.
300
Word that means map.
What is "carto"?
400
An inaccuracy that occurs when a flat map is used to show the earth's curved surface.
What is a distortion?
400
The largest rotating globe.
What is Eartha?
400
This country is eight times smaller than South America.
What is Greenland?
400
Word that means written description.
What is "graphy"?
500
A method that cartographers use to show the earth's curved surface on a flat map.
What is a map projection?
500
Responsible for making the first globe ever in 1942.
Who is Martin Behaim?
500
The sizes and shapes of these are fairly accurate in a Goode's Interrupted Projection.
What are landmasses?
500
Word that means Earth
What is "geo"?
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