Maps
The four point of the compass, north, east south, west.
What are cardinal directions?
Tools for representing space and places in a symbolic way
What are maps and globes?
Tools used to present ideas or data
What are charts?
Tools used to illustrate relationships among quantities
What are graphs?
What is The Projection Puzzle?
Grid, Color, Scale, Symbols, and Legend
What are the essential features of all maps and globes?
One of the 5 themes of geography
What is location?
One of the 4 types of charts, use to list data in a table form
What is a tabulation chart?
Pie, line, and bar.
What are the three most common types of graphs?
The name for the process of transferring information from the round globe to a flat map
What is a projection?
The process of reducing everything by the same amount
What is scaling?
The numbers used to indicate location (longitude and latitude)
What are coordinates?
One of the four types of charts, used to group data into categories
What is a classification chart?
Start with simple then to more complex, student-made graphs and charts and use personal data
What are the strategies to teach graphs and charts?
A projection introduced in the late 16th century, it became popular even though it distorted the size of landmasses and water, used by many sailors.
What is the Mercator projection?
Graphic, inches-to-miles, and representative fraction
What are the 3 types of scales?
Google earth
What is one tool/strategy to teach globes?
One of the four types of charts, used to show the structure of an organization.
What is an organization chart?
One of the 3D bar graphs shown in the textbook that you can create with your students
What is a paper chain bar graph?
The Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection
Who is Gerardus Mercator?
Orient a map and note directions, use the scale and compute distance, locate places on maps and globes, express relative location, and interpret map symbols and visualize what they mean
What are the 5 essential map-reading skills?
Two ways of expressing location
What is relative and absolute location?
One of the four types of charts, shows the process involving changes
What is a flow chart?
Other 3D manipulative graphs you can use in your classroom that may help represent fractions
What is a moveable paper pie graph?
The other two projections discussed in the textbook chapter, both of these preserve size and distance more.
What is the Peters Projection and the Fuller Projection?