Map Features
The word at the top of the map that tells you what it is about.
What is a title?
A map that contains many different types of information.
What is a general purpose map?
Map projection that has good size and shape.
What is the Winkel Triple Projection.
The latitude line of 0.
What is the equator?
Plum Coulee is in this time zone.
What is central time?
Lines that run up and down and side to side along a map.
What is latitude and longitude?
A map containing information on only one topic or theme.
What is a thematic map?
Has a compass bearing that is beneficial to sailors.
What is the Mercator Projection?
The longitude line of 0.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Yellowknife is in this time zone.
What is Mountain Time?
A symbol on a map that shows which way each direction is.
What is a compass rose?
A map showing boundaries between countries and states. Also major cities and bodies of water.
What is a political map?
Projection that has curved lines of longitude and straight lines of latitude.
What is the Robinson Projection?
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Bonavista is in this time zone.
What is Newfoundland time?
Shows what map symbols mean.
What is a legend?
A map showing the geography of an area.
What is a physical map?
Projection created in 1973 by German historian and journalist Arno ______.
What is the Peters Projection.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Sherbrooke is in this time zone?
A grid system that uses a combination of letters and numbers.
What is an alpha-numeric grid system?
A scale map showing both natural and human made features.
What is a topographic map?
What is the Miller Cylindrical Projection?
Brunei is in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Guelph is in this time zone.
What is Eastern Time?