Text that identifies the coverage and content of a map. This is usually a major map element and can be worded to show the map theme or the map’s content.
100
How else could you describe global grid?
Lines of Latitude and Longitude
100
Someone who studies written documents and records is called a?
Historian
200
What is a Map Key or Legend?
The map element that allows the map user to translate graphic map symbols into ideas, usually by the use of text.
200
Lines of Latitude run...
East and West
200
A physical features map shows...
Landforms
300
Define the compass rose of a map
A circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
300
Lines of Longitude run...
North and South
300
Someone who studies Maps of earth's natural and human made features is called a?
Geographer
400
the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. What is this called?
Map Scale
400
To measure distances with longitude, you measure?
East and West of the Prime Meridian
400
Someone who studies objects that have been left behind is called an?
An Archeologist
500
What is the Prime Meridian?
A planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude.
500
To measure distances in latitude you measure?
North and South of the Equator
500
What two things did the ancient Sumerians build to protect their water supply?