Types of Maps
Latitude & Longitude
Reading a Map
Continents and Oceans
More About Maps
100
This is a 3D, accurate presentation of the entire world that shows accurate areas, distances, and relative shapes and sizes.
What is a globe?
100
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
100
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
100
This ocean is between Antarctica and 60 degrees longitude.
What is the Southern Ocean?
100
This shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
200
This kind of map shows human activities and typically has a specific topic it is covering.
What is a thematic map?
200
Directions that lines of latitude run
What are west to east?
200
These lines show the limits of the territory within a certain area; in football a player might be out of them.
What are boundaries?
200
This continent is located 20oW and 50oE.
Where is Africa?
200
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
300
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
300
The line of latitude that runs at 0o and splits the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres is known as this.
What is the Equator?
300
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
300
This continent is southeast of Africa.
What is the Australia?
300
Where one place is located in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
400
This type of map shows natural features of an area, such as rivers, lakes or mountains.
What is a physical map?
400
Longitude lines run in these two directions?
What are north and south?
400
The key to understanding maps is to use this.
What is the legend?
400
This ocean is the ocean that connects to the Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Virginia.
What is the Atlantic?
400
This continent is also a country.
What is Australia?
500
Almost always distorted in size or shape somehow.
What are all flat maps?
500
The line of latitude that is 0o and splits the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres is known as this.
What is Prime Meridian?
500
Someone who makes a map is known as this.
What is a cartographer?
500
California, Oregon, and Washington are all states located near this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
This continent is also called the South Pole.
What is Antarctica?