Types of Maps
Map Symbols
5 Themes of Geography
Earth's 4 spheres
Map skills
100
This type of maps features landforms such as mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.
What is a physical map?
100
This type of symbol helps you figure out directions.
What is a compass rose?
100
This theme discusses where we are.
What is location?
100
This sphere is made up all the gases surrounding earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
The lines on a map that run in the east-west direction are called this.
What is latitude?
200
This type of map features natural resources located throughout a region.
What is an economic map?
200
This type of symbol helps you measure distance on a map.
What is scale?
200
Language is a human characteristic of this theme of geography.
What is place?
200
This sphere is the crust of the earth.
What is lithosphere?
200
The lines that run north and south on a map are called this.
What is longitude?
300
This type of map features governmental boundaries such as state lines, parish or county lines, and city districts.
What is a political map?
300
This type of symbol identifies key features on a map.
What is legend or key?
300
Computer and email are an example of this type of theme of geography.
What is movement?
300
This sphere is made up of all the water on earth.
What is hydrosphere?
300
The line that runs from north to south on a map and separates east from west is called this.
What is prime meridian?
400
A map without a specific purpose such as a physical map is called this.
What is a general purpose map?
400
The main directions such as north, south, east, and west are called this.
What is cardinal directions?
400
Governmental boundaries are a part of this type of theme of geography.
What is regions?
400
This sphere is made up of plants and animals.
What is biosphere?
400
The line that runs east to west and separates north from the south is called this.
What is equator?
500
A map with a one particular purpose such as African American slave trade routes is called this.
What is a specific purpose map?
500
Directions such as northwest or southeast are called this.
What is intermediate directions?
500
Our dependence upon the Mississippi River is an example of this type of theme of geography.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
This sphere has a part of every other sphere included in its description.
What is biosphere?
500
This term is how we take the round earth and put it on a flat map.
What is map projections?
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