It is similarities among different places like the location of large cities near water.
What are geographic patterns?
100
It is a three-dimensional or spherical representation of Earth.
What is a globe?
100
This shows how much distance on Earth is shown on the map.
What is the map's scale?
100
This projection has less distortion in size and shape and is preferred by the National Geographic Society.
What is the Winkel Tripel projection?
100
It is a map about a specific topic and it is useful for showing a variety of geographic information.
What is a thematic map?
200
It involves thinking about the space on Earth's surface including where places are located and why they are there.
What is spatial thinking.
200
This line of longitude runs north to south from the North Pole to the South Pole though Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
It is a map that covers a large area but includes few details.
What is a small-scale map?
200
These are the changes found in shape, area, distance and direction on maps because the world is round and maps are flat.
What is distortion?
200
It is a theme of geography that explains how people affect the environment and how the environment affects people.
What is Human-Environment Interactions?
300
Geographers use these to categorize similar geographic information.
What are the five themes of geography?
300
It is half of the earth.
What is hemisphere?
300
It is a person who makes maps.
Who is a cartographer?
300
These are ways mapmakers show Earth's curved surface on a flat map.
What are projections?
300
It is a thematic map that can be used to show population in and around a city or region.
What is dot density map?
400
It is a group of places with common traits geographers use to categorize the areas of the world.
What is a region?
400
It is a flat representation of Earth.
What is a map?
400
It shows the change in elevation from one place to another.
What is relief?
400
Azimuthal, Mercator, homolisine, Robinson and Winkel Tripel
What are map projections?
400
They never touch each other and run east to west but measure north and south.
What are lines of latitude?
500
It is the exact point where a place is located.
What is absolute location?
500
It is a satellite tool used to find absolute location.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
500
A map that shows natural features.
What is a physical map?
500
A map that shows features that are man-made.
What is political map?
500
A map that shows the location of activities at different points; for example, a United States map with symbols that show sources of wind, water and solar energy.