These east to west circles on a map have two names, latitude or lines of this.
What is parallels?
100
This imaginary line separates our earth into the Northern and Southern hemisperes.
What is the equator?
100
This is the term used to describe the study of our Earth.
What is Geography?
100
This line separates the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
This theme helps geographers make comparisons between areas.
What is regions?
200
This section of a map explains symbols for the map features.
What is the key or legend?
200
The representation of the Earth's rounded surface on a flat piece of paper is called this.
What is a projection?
200
Geographers use the five themes of geography to do this?
What is organize information?
200
This map shows a change in the shape of some landmasses or a problem called what.(show PP)
What is distortion?
200
This theme includes two types, absolute and relative.
What is location?
300
Giving you a sense of direction, this is found in it's complete version on a regular map, but not on a pirate's map.
What is a compass rose?
300
These lines, have two names, are imaginary, and circle the globe from north to south.
What is longitude or meridians?
300
This disadvantage of early maps came from fear of what was "out there".
What is blank spaces or mythical creatures?
300
A globe is more accurate than a flat map because of these two advantages.
What is shaped like our Earth and can show the true shapes of continents and oceans.
300
This theme describes how people, goods and ideas get around.
What is Movement?
400
Gaps in an interrupted projection map make it difficult to do this.
What is figure distances correctly?
400
This map feature shows four birds, all cardinals!
What is the compass rose?
400
Geographers use these two questions to guide their work.
What is "where are things located?" and "why are they there?"
400
This conformal map, still in use by sailors is useful because the latitude and longitude lines appear to be straight.
What is Mercator projection?
400
This theme describes a locations' physical and human features.
What is Place?
500
Latitude and Longitude lines are useful to geographers to identify this.
What is absolute location?
500
This unit of measure used to determine absolute locations on a map or globe is called this.
What is a degree?
500
Flat maps were invented because it was impossible to make a globe that was these two things.
What is complete enough to use and convenient to carry
500
The best world map available, the official projection for world maps.
What is Robinson Projection?
500
This theme describes the relationship between people, their environment, the physical characteristics and their natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them.