Types of Maps
This kind of map shows different landforms.
What is a physical map?
The conference that Europeans met to split up Africa without starting conflicts.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This is the box that reveals what colors, lines, and icons represent on the map.
What is the key or legend?
Shows the moment a cartographer (map-maker) published a map.
What is the Date?
Industrial, Residential, and Agricultural are all in this category.
What is land use?
This type of map shows where different natural resources are extracted.
What is an economic map?
The name for the period where European powers were trying to gain African colonies as fast as possible.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This tells the audience the topic of the map.
What is the title?
The place a cartographer (map-maker) accesses the data needed to create the map.
What is the Source?
The two European countries that had the most power in Africa in 1885.
Who are France and Great Britain.
Liberia and Ethiopia were the only African countries in this category.
What are Independent African States?
This is what a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
A saying that helps one determine orientation.
What is Never Eat Shredded Wheat / Soggy Waffles / Etc.?
Gaining trade and sea power was this type of motivation for imperialism.
What is a Political motivation?
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
These motivated Europeans to imperialize the African continent. (Must name one exactly)
What are Economic (Trade & Land Use), Political, Religious, and Exploratory (Migration)?
One of the grid lines that circles the world horizontally.
What is the latitude line?
The horizontal and vertical lines that stretch across the map make up this.
What is the Grid?
A technological advancement that made it easier for people to travel quickly.
What is the steam engine?
This type of map shows the elevation of the land.
What is a topographic map?
The name of King Leopold's police force.
What is the Force Publique?
The index is typically label with these.
What are letters or numbers?
The 'C' with a circle around it typically identifies this element of DOGSTAILS.
What is the Author?
Cotton is used in these industries.
What are the textile or fabric industries?