MAPS MAPS MAPS!!!
Expertise
Vocabulary and Philosophy
Are You Projecting?
Seasoning
100
The kind of map in this picture.
What is a geologic map (or geologic cross section)?
100
The kind of earth scientist who would be most able to tell you about tides and currents.
What is an oceanographer?
100
The concept in earth science described as the present being "the key to the past".
What is uniformitarianism?
100
The earliest full-globe map projection.
What is the Mercator projection?
100
The name for the shortest day of the year, in which the hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is the winter solstice?
200
The latitude where this map would be most helpful for navigation.
What is 0 degrees N/S (or the Equator)?
200
The study of things "in the air", which shares etymology with falling stars.
What is meteorology?
200
The geographical measurement of north and south.
What is latitude?
200
The projection that has the most accurate landmasses.
What is the Robinson projection?
200
The word that describes a day when the sun's rays are most perpendicular to the equator.
What is equinox?
300
The type of projection that produced this map.
What is a conic projection?
300
The field of Earth Science that isn't actually on Earth.
What is astronomy?
300
The longitude of the city of Greenwich in England.
What is 0 degrees.
300
This kind of map projection.
What is the Mercator projection?
300
The latitude of the Tropic of Cancer.
What is 23.5 degrees N (or 23 degrees 30'N)?
400
The difference in elevation between the two red stars on this map.
What are 50 units?
400
The kind of scientists who are concerned with the effects of human actions on the Earth.
What are Environmental scientists?
400
The system of navigation that uses a receiver to calculate position relative to satellites.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
400
This kind of map projection.
What is a gnomic projection?
400
The specific feature of the Earth that is most responsible for seasons.
What is Earth's axial tilt?
500
The geographic feature represented by the "V" shapes on this map.
What is a stream valley (or runoff channel)?
500
The kind of geologist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
500
The feature of topographic maps that shows you the elevation distance between contour lines.
What is a contour interval?
500
The kind of map projection that gained popularity as Europeans explored the north pole while looking for the Northwest Passage.
What is a conic projection?
500
From our perspective in Washington State, the day that the sun's rays are most perpendicular to the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the winter solstice.