Types of Maps
A map that shows us features humans have created.
What is a political map?
The map projection usually used for textbooks.
What is a Robinson map projection?
Explains what the map is about.
What is the map title?
Where something is.
What is location?
A collection of information in a computer.
What is a database?
A map that shows naturally occurring features.
What is a physical map?
The map projection mainly used by airline navigators.
What is a polar map projection?
Shows directions (usually the cardinal) on a map. Also used for orientation.
What is the compass rose?
Locations having unique features making them different from one another.
What is place?
An example: A biography about George Washington written by a 2000s historian.
What is a secondary source?
A map that shows elevation using isolines.
What is a contour map?
The map projection used primarily for ship navigation.
What is a Mercator map projection?
Used to communicate specific locations such as cities or capitals. Can also be used to show any valuable information to humans (ex: resources, railroads, airports)
What is symbols?
How goods, people, and information go from place to place.
What is movement?
A source created during the time of study.
What is a primary source?
A map that shows a larger area with less detail.
What is a small-scale map?
The map projection that shows true direction.
What is a Mercator map projection?
Explains symbols on a map.
What is the legend/key?
What is region?
When a geographer travels to a location in order to study it. The geographer may interview people, take pictures, use surveying equipment, or make personal observations.
What is field work?
A map that shows us a smaller area with more detail.
What is a large-scale map?
The map projection that shows the true size and shape of continents.
What is a Robinson map projection?
Makes up the grid on a map.
What is lines of latitude and longitude?
How humans interact with and influence their environment.
Human-Environment Interaction
This source combines information about a place from several sources such as databases, maps, and satellite images in order to solve a problem.