Key features of a Map
Miscellaneous Terms
5 Themes of Geography
Globe & Map Terms
Types of Maps
100
Examples of this kind of features on a map include: politics, religion, population, birth-rate, and oil production.
What is human features
100
What is a cartographer?
What is a person to creates/designs maps
100
What theme of Geography asks the question, "Where is it?" and is absolute as well as relative.
What is Location
100
What are horizontal, imaginary lines parallel to the Equator called?
What is Latitude
100
what type of map (most commonly) used for pilots and sailors?
What is Navigation maps
200
What type of feature on a map includes: climate, vegetation, and language.
What is physical features on a map
200
What is a representation of a map created by latitude or longitude lines, dimensions, and mathematics called?
What is a Map Projection
200
What theme of Geography asks "How are places similar or different?" and provides characteristics of Earth's surface?
What is Region
200
What are vertical, imaginary lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian called?
What is Longitude
200
what map uses colors, symbols, dots, or lines to make connections and patterns related to an idea?
What is Thematic (Qualitative) map
300
What is a key that lists and explains the symbols and use of color on a map?
What is a legend
300
What is a familiar tool that gives an exact location using latitude, longitude, altitude, and time called?
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)
300
What theme of Geography asks "What is it like?"
What is Place
300
what is located at zero degrees longitude, divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and is the line from which all other lines of longitude are measured?
What is Prime Meridian
300
what map shows the movement of people, goods, or ideas using a series of arrows?
What is a Flow-Line map
400
What shows the ratio between a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on Earth?
What is a scale
400
Name the 7 Continents of the World
What is S. America, N. America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Antartica, and Australia.
400
What theme of Geography shows how humans interact with their environment and asks the question, "How do people relate to their physical world?"
What is Human-Environment Interaction
400
What is located at zero degrees latitude (North or South,) and divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is Equator
400
What map displays the natural and man-made features of Earth?
What is Physical map
500
What represents items such as capital cities, economic activities, and natural resources?
What is symbols
500
What is a digital database that collections information which includes: maps, aerial photographs, and satellite images. It then creates a map using all of the collected data.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
500
What theme of Geography asks the question "How do the people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another?"
What is Movement
500
What is half of the globe, divided into north and south by the Equator or into east and west by the Prime Meridian?
What is Hemispheres
500
What map is a diagram used to present statistical information and shows the countries of the world where the size of the country varies with respect to its population.
What is a Cartogram