Zero degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
A list of symbols used on a map
What is a Legend or Key?
The distance above or below sea level
What is Elevation?
Zero degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
Areas that have the same characteristics
What are Regions?
Another name for a line of latitude
Type of map that shows elevation over the earth´s surface
What is a Topographical Map?
A map that shows boundaries made by man.
What is a Political Map?
The exact location of something
What is absolute location?
The Northern most point on Earth
What is the North Pole?
What is the South Pole?
The postal system is an example of this because it transports information.
What is Movement?
Another name for lines of longitude
What are Meridians?
How we adapt to, depend on, and modify our environment is called this.
What is the Human-Environment Interaction?
Separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the Equator?
What is a Special Purpose or Thematic Map?
There are this many continents on Earth.
What is Seven?
Map that shows physical features like mountains, rivers, and elevation.
What is Physical Maps?
Ratio of the distance on a map to the actual distance on Earth´s surface
What is Scale?
A general location is this.
What is Relative Location?
Separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
The ocean east of North America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These mountains separate Europe from Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
The science of where things are located on Earth and why they are located in those places is this.
What is Geography?
The misrepresentation of the area or shape of a feature
What is Distortion?