Definitions
A person who draws or produces maps
What is a cartographer?
Imaginary lines on a map running east to west
What is latitude?
What state is located at 40N and 83W?
What is Ohio?
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
What is culture?
Imaginary lines on a map that run north to south
What is longitude?
A map that focuses on a specific theme or subject area
What is a thematic map?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What city is located at (approximately) 40N and 105W?
What is Denver?
the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
the condition of a region or group as regards material prosperity
What is economics?
A map that focuses on the geography of the area and will often have shaded relief to show the mountains and valleys.
What is a physical map?
A map that shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water
What is a political map?
What is a compass rose?
What ocean is located at 30S and 132W?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A natural feature on the surface, such as water, mountains, and deserts.
What is a physical feature?
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?
A map made from a person's point-of-view/perception of their area of interaction
What is a mental map?
Refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
What is a map scale?
What continent is located at 15S and 60W?
What is South America?
The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period
What is climate?
An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
What is a region?
A half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles
What is a hemisphere?
Maps often use symbols or colors to represent things, and THIS explains what they mean. ...
What is a map key/legend?
What country is located at 30N and 30E?
What is Egypt?
All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country
A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country
What is population?
What is the difference between a landmark and a landform?
Landmark is a recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation (Statue of Liberty, White House, etc)
Landform is any geological (natural) feature, such as a mountain or valley
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