Seeing what you have never seen before
What is the science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface?
Geography
What name did the German map maker Martin Waldseemuller propose to give to the new world?
America
What are two causes of dramatic changes in the earth?
Volcanoes and earthquakes
What kind of a map helps people get from one place to another?
Navigational
What is the name of the imaginary lateral lines that are parallel to the equator?
Latitude
What is the study of how physical geography impacts human activity and how human activity impacts physical geography?
Human geography
What did the female geolo Marie Tharp help to map?
The ocean
What is the term for the increasing interconnectedness of production and trade among nations and the increasing dependence of many nations on economic activity outside of their borders?
Globalization
What kind of a map shows elements of an area’s terrain?
Physical or topographical
Where on earth does a day begin?
International Date Line
What is the term for the moving of the plates in the earth’s crust and outer mantle?
Plate tectonics
What project has aimed to develop a 3-D map of the earth using satellite images?
Google Earth
What is the term for the indiscriminate cutting of trees without planting new ones?
Deforestation
What kids of a map shows the borders of states and countries?
Geopolitical
What is the name for the zero degree meridian of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England?
Prime Meridian
What is the term for the impact that every astronaut has reported of being deeply affected by looking back at the earth beneath them?
Overview effect
What does GPS stand for?
Global positioning system
What country’s military had the goal of mapping the entire world during the Cold War?
The Soviet Union
What is the process of transfer locations on a map?
Projection
What parallel of latitude is about 23 degrees, 26 minutes north of the equator?
Tropic of Cancer
The conditions of the earth being just right for human life has led to the planet being called what?
The Goldilocks planet
What term is used to describe the age in which we live?
Information Age or technological age
What is the term that describes how a map is positioned?
Orientation
What two men became printers in Chicago in 1856 and eventually published their first map in 1872?
(William) Rand and (Andrew) McNalley
What is the name given to the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle?
Southern temperate zone