Types of Maps
This type of map shows countries, states, cities.
What is political map
Which theme is used to study how people modify/change the environment?
What is HEI
Are lines of latitude and longitude real?
What is no, they are imaginary lines that divide earth
Effects involve production, consumption, and distribution of goods; loss of jobs, damage to buildings, interruption of trade
What is economic
What natural feature is related to mountains because of the fact that they are often located in the same place?
What are volcanoes
This type of map shows physical features
What is a physical map
Which theme answers the question: Where is it?
What is location
True or false: The Prime Meridian divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is false
Effects include loss of family members, disruption of transportation and communication networks, disruption of education
What is social
What is the natural phenomena that causes widespread severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property, with which a community cannot cope and during which the affected society undergoes severe disruption?
What is natural disaster
This type of map shows specific things, such as population, climate, time zones
What is a special purpose map
Which theme would describe how Michigan is divided into Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula?
What is region
Which lines run east and west? (They measure the distance north and south of the equator.)
What are lines of latitude
Effects include physical or emotional problems, injuries/death, disease, lack of medical care
What is health
True/False ----The Mercator map is is distorted but the other two are not distorted.
What is false
How many hemispheres can the Earth be split into?
What is 4; north, south, east, and west
Which theme answers the question: How is the place connected to other places?
What is movement
This marks the location of the equator on the global grid. (Think degrees)
What is 0 degrees
Effects include government services/programs are interrupted, loss of government leaders, damage to government buildings
What is political
Is there one right way to regionalize the world?
What is no, it depends on the purpose
What map projection gives the most accurate land sizes and shapes?
What is the Robinson
Which theme describe the human features (ex: ethnicity, population, culture) and physical features (landforms, bodies of water, climate)?
What is place
Climate zones are created by using lines of ...
What are lines of latitude
Effects include air, water, minerals, and organisms are damaged; pollution, destruction of natural features, contaminated water, destruction of crops
What is environmental
What is the epicenter of an earthquake?
What is the center of the earthquake; the area that sees the most damage due to the earthquake