Map Skills
Map Projections
Culture
100
A person that makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
100
This happens when you attempt to put the curved surface of the earth onto a flat map.
What is distortion?
100
The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people.
What is culture?
200
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What are the Intermediate Directions?
200
This is where you will find the most accurate representation of the earth's surface.
What is a globe?
200
A regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, or punctuation.
What is dialect?
300
This is where you would find the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the Compass Rose?
300
This projection is good for representing both land and water.
What is the Robinson Projection?
300
A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background.
What is an ethnic group?
400
The type of map you would use if you wanted to locate the Rocky Mountains.
What is a physical map?
400
On this projection, lines of longitude meet at the poles.
What is the Mollweide Projection?
400
Of the 5 Themes of Geography, this is the theme where Language belongs.
What is movement?
500
You would use this to find the ratio between the distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground.
What is a scale bar?
500
Lines of longitude are parallel to one another and perpendicular to lines of lattitude, making a grid.
What is the Mercator Projection?
500
An important outward display of culture. For example - in Europe, they kiss each other on both cheeks as a greeting.
What is a custom?
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