This map projection accurately shows Antarctica. The latitude lines are drawn as circles and the longitude lines are shown as straight lines through the poles.
What is a South Polar Projection?
100
This city is located at 23 degrees South latitude, 43 degrees west longitude.
Where is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
100
Although not nearly as large as Jacksonville, FL which has the greatest area of any city in the US. This city, known for its Seminoles, is the capital of Florida.
What is Tallahassee?
100
This country contains the Amazon, the world’s largest river.
What is Brazil?
100
This state lies within two miles of Russia.
What is Alaska?
200
This map projection uses straight lines for both latitude and longitude. Therefore, direction and the shapes of the continents are accurate, but size and distance are not accurate away from the equator. For example, Greenland appears larger than South America.
What is a Mercator Projection?
200
This city is located at 19 degrees North latitude, 100 degrees West longitude.
What is Mexico City?
200
The capital of Oregon has a name which means peace.
What is Salem?
200
This country owns and manages the Galapagos Islands.
What is Ecuador?
200
This state is so small that it could fit into Alaska 425 times.
What is Rhode Island?
300
This map projection maintains accurate sizes and shapes of the continents, by not adding extra land or water to fill in the empty gaps. Therefore, distances and directions are difficult to calculate on this type of map.
What is an Interrupted Projection?
300
This city is located at 35 degrees South latitude, 58 degrees west longitude.
What is Buenos Aires?
300
This city is the capital of Michigan. Hint: It's neither Paradise nor Hell.
What is Lansing?
300
This country has two capital cities, Sucre and La Paz.
What is Bolivia?
300
Springfield is the state capital and the home of the National Historic Site of the home of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
What is Illinois?
400
This is a conic projection which provides accurate distance, direction, size and shape, but only between the middle latitudes.
What is a Lambert Projection?
400
This city is located at 16 degrees 30' North latitude, 100 degrees west longitude.
What is Acapulco, Mexico?
400
This city is the capital of Wyoming which was the first state to allow women to vote.
What is Cheyenne?
400
This country used to be called British Honduras.
What is Belize?
400
The only US State lying on the Tropic of Cancer.
What is Hawaii?
500
This projection of the entire world has horizontal lines of latitude, but curved lines of longitude to better represent the shape of a globe. Thus, size is not as distorted, but direction is more difficult to determine.
What is a Robinson Projection?
500
This city is located at 30 degrees 30' North latitude, 86 degrees 30' West longitude.
What is Niceville, FL?
500
The Missouri River flows through this capital.
What is Jefferson City?
(Or Bismarck or Pierre)
500
This country gained its freedom from the Netherlands in 1975.
What is Suriname?
500
This state boasts the births of eight United States Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson