GOT LADS 101
GOT LADS is the acronym of this
What is essential map elements?
Most widely used reference
What is a political map?
AKA meridians
what is longitude?
another name for latitudes
What is parallels?
0 degrees longitude
What is prime meridian?
Rand McNally or National Geographic
What is Author?
Provides travel route directions
What is road map?
0 degrees latitude
what is equator?
This is where the sun appears directly overhead in the summer in the northern hemisphere
What is Tropic of Cancer?
on maps, this shows what colors and symbols represent
What is legend?
An inch can mean a mile or a million miles
What is scale?
Weather, income, resources, population
What is thematic?
180 degrees
what is international dateline?
These are COMPLETELY opposite
What are the poles?
two lines of latitude and longitude
What is geographic coordinates?
Gives the topic or the theme
What is the title?
Essential tool for tradesman
What is topographical?
divides east and west hemispheres
What is prme meridian?
Marks where the sun does not rise on the winter solstice or set on the summer solstice
What are the circles?
Besides north arrow, shows orientation
What is compass rose?
North Arrow
What is orientation?
Uses color to show changes in landscape
What is physical?
Prime meridian runs through this town
What is Greenwich, England?
This area is dark during the northern hemisphere winter solstice
What is the Arctic circle?
Illustrates the interdependence of social developments of the past and geographic features
What is historical?