Types of Maps
The type of map that was used as a navigational tool for sailors.
What is Mercator Map
The smallest continent.
Where is Australia?
The location of a place compared to another item or place.
What is relative location?
Example: "20 minutes away by car, next to the bank" - the theme that this represents
The continent where the Amazon Rainforest is.
Where is South America?
The type of map that is the most accurate.
What is AuthaGraph map.
The largest continent.
Where is Asia?
An imaginary line that runs East / West across the Earth
What is the equator?
The two different categories that fall under the theme -place-
What are: human differences & physical differences?
Who is Sawyer Phillips?
The name of the map that looks comparable to a flattened orange peel.
What is Goode Homolosine?
The continent that has the most countries.
Where is Africa?
A geographic coordinate that specifies the north - south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
What is latitude?
Example: "Oregon, Washington and Idaho make up the Pacific Northwest."
- what theme does this BEST represent?
What is "region"?
One of the six essential elements of geography.
What is:
World in spatial terms
Places and Regions
Physical systems
Human systems
Environment and Society
The uses of geography
The type of map that National Geographic uses.
What is Winkel-Tripel?
The continent that has the world's longest river.
Where is Africa?
(the Nile)
It is given through a __________ system like latitude and longitude
What is coordinate?
Example: "The hidden treasure was discovered in the middle of the rainforest. Its coordinates were 75S and 145W." - what theme does this represent?
The dates of Hispanic Heritage Month.
When is September 15 - October 15?
The names of all of the oval maps we discussed yesterday.
What is Winkel-Tripel, Robinson, and Mollweide?
Where is South America?
(the Atacama Desert in Chile)
What GPS stands for.
What is Global Positioning System?
The three categories that fall under "Region" (types of regions)
What are: government regions, functional regions, & general regions?
The President who started Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968.
Who is President Lyndon Johnson?