Types of Maps
Scale model of the Earth, or sometimes used to mean the Earth itself.
What is a GLOBE?
BONUS BUCCI QUESTION:
This is Ms. Bucci's favorite color.
What is YELLOW?
This shows us our Cardinal Directions.
What is a COMPASS ROSE?
This is represented by the letters SE on the compass rose.
What direction is SOUTH EAST?
Person who makes maps.
BONUS BUCCI QUESTION:
This is Ms. Bucci's favorite school subject growing up.
What is ART?
Projection where the latitude and longitude are straight and at right angles.
What is the MERCATOR PROJECTION?
This is at the top of the map that lets you know what the map is about.
What is the TITLE?
The place you can find the symbols and their meanings.
What is a MAP KEY/LEGEND?
A set of numbers giving the precise location of a point, often its latitude and longitude.
What are COORDINATES?
A map that represents spatial information displaying sites of historical interest.
What is a HISTORICAL MAP?
A map projection where the Earth's surface is projected onto a tube, or cylinder, shape.
What is a CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION?
BONUS BUCCI QUESTION:
Who is older; Mx. Armas or Ms. Bucci.
Ms. Bucci
BONUS QUESTION: DOUBLE POINTS
This could be represented by a picture of a book on a map.
What is a LIBRARY or a SCHOOL or a BOOK STORE?
A twisted representation of something.
What is DISTORTION?
Representation of data on a specific topic for a specific area.
What is a THEMATIC MAP?
Projecting the Earth's surface onto a flat surface.
What is a PLANAR PROJECTION?
A map that shows true relative size but distorts shape and direction.
What is an EQUAL AREA MAP?
A symbol of a building with a cross on it.
What is a CHURCH or a HOSPITAL
Distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees.
This is a map you could find on your phone to direct you to the correct place.
What is a GPS?
A representation of a sphere where the surface is represented on a flattened cone, with curved lines of latitude and straight meridians.
What is a CONICAL PROJECTION?
Tool for measuring distance on a map.
What is a BAR SCALE?
The line that goes through the middle of the earth that shows where the warmest parts of Earth are located.
What is the EQUATOR?
Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees.
What is LONGITUDE?