Vocabulary
Longitude and Latitude
Distortion and Map Projection
Things on a Map
Absolute and Relative Location
100
The precise point where a place is located on Earth.
What is absolute location?
100
Measured from the equator and runs east to west.
What is Latitude?
100
A change in size, shapes, or position of a place on a map.
What is Distortion?
100
Something that describes symbols on a map.
What is key or a legend?
100
A way to find things using landmarks.
What is relative location?
200
Where a place is located in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
200
Measured from the prime meridian and runs north to south.
What is Longitude?
200
A way of representing the spherical earth on a flat surface.
What is Map Projection?
200
Something that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
200
The two ways to describe location.
What is Absolute and Relative Location?
300
The two branches of geography.
What are physical and human?
300
Something that is a reference for measuring other meridians and runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The item being projected.
What is the earth's surface?
300
Something that describes areas shown on a map.
What is the map title?
300
A type of location that uses coordinates.
What is an absolute location?
400
North, South, East, West.
What is cardinal direction?
400
The meridian that changes the day as travelers cross it.
What is The International Dateline?
400
A way scientists avoid distortion.
What is a globe/3D object?
400
Something that is a commonly used icon for a capital city on a map.
What is a bold star?
400
Precision bombing, Boats/Ships, GPS, and Airplanes.
What are examples of things that use absolute location?
500
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest.
What is intermediate direction?
500
A type of location that uses longitude and latitude.
What is Absolute Location?
500
One is a change in shape and the other fixes the shape.
What is the difference between map distortion and projection?
500
Five things you need on a map.
What is a compass rose, title, author, date, and key?
500
Explain how you get to school using relative location.
We will grade your response.
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