What is Geography?
Using a Map
Hemispheres, Oceans, and Continents
Latitude and Longitude
Types of Maps
100
A description of where a place is compared to something else
What is absolute location?
100
It is a flat picture of all or part of the earth.
What is a map?
100
It is a major landmass.
What is a continent?
100
These run from the top to the bottom on a globe or map.
What are lines of longitude?
100
It is a mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
200
It is the imaginary center line around which the earth rotates.
What is axis?
200
It tells what the map is about.
What is a title?
200
It is a large body of salt water.
What is an ocean?
200
They are the 7 continents.
What are North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Antarctica.
200
This projection is used in reference books.
What is the Winkel Tripel projection?
300
It is the study of the earth and its features.
What is geography?
300
You can determine distances between places using this on a map.
What is a scale?
300
It divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
300
The equator is this.
What is a line of latitude?
300
They show political boundaries, natural resources, and elevations of an area.
What are maps?
400
Your address is this
What is absolute location?
400
It shows which direction on the map is north.
What is compass rose?
400
They are also called parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
400
It is the latitude and longitude that describe the absolute location of a place.
What is a coordinate?
400
The Mercator projection is a ____________ likeness of the earth.
What is flat?
500
This geography includes the study of the people of the world and their effects on the environment around them.
What is human geography?
500
It is a small section on a map that tells what the symbols mean.
What is the legend or key?
500
It is the measure of latitude and longitude.
What are degrees?
500
The prime meridian divides the earth into these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
500
These maps include political maps and physical maps.
What are general-purpose maps?
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