Vocabulary(1)
A model of an area of the Earth's surface
What is a map?
A person who creates maps.
Who are Cartographers?
One of the four key geographic directions: North, South, East, West
What are Cardinal Directions?
A simplified image that models a part of the Earth's surface
What is a map?
The great circle of latitude, perpendicular to Earth's rotational axis
What is the Equator?
A map that focuses on a specific theme or unifying idea when displaying data
What are thematic maps?
The latitude and longitude used to locate a point on the earth's surface.
What are Geographic Coordinates?
A circle on a globe that runs parallel to the Equator and has a smaller diameter.
What is a small circle?
Any line on a map or globe that runs parallel to the Equator
What is Latitude?
Any line on a map or globe that measures distance east or West of the Prime Meridian
What is Longitude?
A vertical line that measures longitude by running North and South from pole to pole
What is a Meridian?
The precise latitude and longitude values of your location
What is your Geographic Position?
Any line on a relief map that connects points of equal elevation above sea level.
What are Contour Lines?
A horizontal line that measures latitude by running east and west around the Earth
What is parallel?
The transfer of geographic information from a 3D globe onto the 2D surface of a map.
What are Map Projections?
What is the highest possible number for a longitude reading/angle?
180
The ratio of a distance represented on a map to the same distance on the Earth's surface
What is the Map Scale?
The semicircle on the globe that connects the North and South Poles. (0 degrees longitude)
What is the Prime Meridian?
A system that uses digital map data, programs, hardware, and data storage systems to create and display information on maps.
What is the Geographic Information System (GIS)
What is the key advantage of how GIS organizes map data?
The GIS is organized into Layers that can show the relationship between two or more different kinds of data.