Directions
Maps/Globes
Types of Maps
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

This direction points down on a map.

What is south?

100

More accurate than maps.

What is an Advantage of Globes?

100

Show man-made features such as cities, states, provinces, territories, or countries.

What is a Political Map?

100

2-dimensional representations of the Earth.

What is a Map?

100

These imaginary lines run east and west on a globe.

What are lines of latitude?

200

This drawing shows directions on a map.

What is a compass rose?

200

Show distortion

What is the Disadvantage of a Map?

200

Shows the type of landforms and bodies of water in a specific area.

What is a Physical Map?

200

Three-dimensional representations of the Earth.

What is the Globe?

200

These imaginary lines run north and south on a globe.

What are the lines of longitude?

300

If you are facing north, this direction is to your left.

What is west?

300

Can show themes.

What is an Advantage of Maps?

300

Illustrate the movement of people, goods, ideas, or even animals. The information is usually shown in a series of arrows.

What is the Flow-Line Map?

300

A specific place on the Earth's surface

What is an Absolute Location?

300

The equator is at this degree latitude.

What is 0 degrees?

400

This type of direction includes the main directions: north, south, east, and west.

What is a cardinal direction?

400

Not Thematic

What is a Disadvantage of Globes?

400

It only shows one hemisphere, the latitude lines are circles, and the longitude lines radiate from the center.

What is a Polar Map?

400

Where a place is in relation to another place.

What is Relative Location?

400

This imaginary line is at 0 degrees longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

This type of direction includes the directions in between north, south, east, and west.

What is an intermediate direction?

500

Both maps and globes use this.

Lines of longitude and latitude

Cardinal and Intermediate Directions

500

Which some thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area.

What is Cartograms?

500

When a geographer travels to a location in order to study it.

What is Surveying?

500

A way to lessen map distortion.

What is Map Projection?

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