Map Vocabulary
This is the term for "which way is north" on a map.
What is ORIENTATION?
This is a map projection with rounded latitude lines and excellent accuracy in land shape/size.
What is the ROBINSON PROJECTION?
Muslims and Hindus fight over this in Pakistan and India.
What is KASHMIR?
This is a shrubby grassland associated with tropical wet-and-dry climate.
What is a SAVANNA?
This is a flat-topped landform with steep sides.
What is a PLATEAU?
Changing this element of a map will show you more or less detail about a smaller or larger element.
What is SCALE?
What are POLITICAL, PHYSICAL, AND THEMATIC?
Home of a stateless ethnic group on the Iraq-Syria border.
What is KURDISTAN?
This is a fertile grassland associated with semi-arid climates -- think about North America's Great Plains and Argentina's Pampas.
What are STEPPES?
This is a continent ringed by waterfalls because it is a plateau.
What is AFRICA?
This element of maps refers to where the mapmaker puts the distortion.
What is PROJECTION?
These are the types of maps that have information about one topic in detail, explained in a title and a key with lots of colors and symbols.
What are THEMATIC MAPS?
Where Republicans and Unionists have different goals in regards to the United Kingdom.
What is NORTHERN IRELAND?
These are grass/shrub/moss-lands frozen for at least part of the year in high latitudes.
What is TUNDRA?
This is fertile black soil in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia.
What is CHERNOZEM?
This part of a map indicates the map's orientation.
What is a DIRECTIONAL INDICATOR?
What is a MERCATOR PROJECTION?
This is the part of the planet that gets the most direct sunlight all year long.
What is the EQUATOR?
This is the part of the world most affected by the monsoon (region, body of water).
What is SOUTH ASIA and BAY OF BENGAL?
On a PHYSICAL MAP, this is almost always in the key.
What is color-coded elevation?
This projection is only used for airline navigation.
What is the POLAR PROJECTION?
Where the highest concentration of Palestinians live under Israeli control.
What are the OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF WEST BANK AND GAZA?
These are two names for an evergreen forest particularly associated with subarctic climates.
What is TAIGA or BOREAL FOREST?
What is COASTAL EROSION?