World Facts
Table of Contents
Use This Atlas Pages 3-5
Map Projections pages 106-107
Thematic Index (Inside Back Cover)
100
This is the continent that makes up almost 30% of the world's land area.
What is Asia?
100
This is the page range to find information about North America.
What is pages 26-31?
100
In the Legend for Land Cover Maps this represents a Tropical Rain Forest.
What is the color Green?
100
This map projection shows true shape but distorts size.
What is conformal projections?
100
This is the page numbers to find World CLIMATE maps.
What is pages 18-19?
200
This city is the highest point in South America at 22,831 feet above sea level.
What is Aconcagua, Argentina?
200
This is the page range to find information about Africa.
What is 62-67?
200
In the Legend for Elevation Maps, these are what the Color categories represent.
What is "Feet Above Sea Level" and "Water Depth in Feet"?
200
This map, first published in 1569, is a conformal projection which shows the poles not as points but as lines the same length as the equator.
What is Mercator?
200
This map is found on page 102 and is a Natural Regions map?
What is Ring of Fire?
300
This ocean has the largest area at area in square miles.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This is the page range to find information about South America.
What is 56-61?
300
These are the five categories of Thematic Maps.
What is Elevation, Annual Rainfall, Growing Season, Land Use, and Population?
300
This map is a compromise between the Mercator and the Mollweide maps which has reasonably accurate shapes and directions between 60 degrees N and 60 degrees S, where most of the world's people live?
What is Van der Grinten?
300
These is the percentage of Australia's Urban Population. (Hint find the page number to go to under population Maps.)
What is 93%?
400
This is the number of how many of the largest lakes are in North America.
What is eight?
400
This is where you can find an index of places?
What is pages 110-120?
400
Using the Detailed Legend for Political Maps this is represented by a small black square.
What is a small country?
400
This map is a compromise projection and gives the impression of being peeled from a globe.
What is Armadillo?
400
These are the five minerals resources of Canada. (Hint: find the page number under the resources and Economics section.)
What is Iron ore, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, and Lead?
500
This is the name and length of the fourth longest river system in the world.
What is Mississippi-Missouri system 3741 miles?
500
This is the page in which you can find a list of abbreviations.
What is inside the back cover?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!! This answer you must draw the symbols for mountain peak, dry or seasonal lake, and water fall.
What is (to be judged by Mr. Brown)
500
These are the four Map Projections that are examples of Equal-area-projections, which show all areas in their true relatives sizes, but distort shapes.
What is Gall-Peters, Mollweide, Eckert IV, and Good's Homolosine?
500
Looking at the World People per car page, this is the number of people per car in the United States and Pakistan?
What is 2 and 113?
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