Map Tools
What is usually at the top of every map?
The Title
What is the main Longitude line at 0 degrees?
Prime Meridian
How many major categories are there for the climate Regions?
5
1. Forests
2. Grasslands
3. Arid
4. Tundra/Arctic
5. Aquatic
What is the outermost sphere of the Earth?
Lithosphere
What gives us the knowledge of what the icons mean on a map?
The Legend
What is the top part on the Latitude lines that get sun?
Tropic of Cancer
What climate region is in the northern most Latitude area?
Polar
What biome usually averages less than 10 inches of rain per year?
Desert biome
What sphere do we as humans live in?
Biosphere
What is the main problem with all maps that are created?
Distortion
What is the main Latitude line at 0 degrees?
Equator
What climate region is home to a rainforest?
Tropical
What biome is found almost entirely in the Northern Hemisphere?
Tundra/Arctic
What are the four main natural disasters that affect all of the spheres?
Hurricane, Earthquake, Tsunamis, and Volcanos
What is the closest accurate map that we have today?
A Globe
What is another important line of Longtitude?
The International Date Line
What area in the US did I say was a Continental Climate region?
New York, Boston, Buffalo
What were the two different Grassland Biomes?
Steeps and Savannahs
What sphere consists of all of the water and the life within it on Earth?
The Hydrosphere
Lewis and Clark
What is the bottom most Latitude line that gets sunlight?
Tropic of Capricorn
What type of climate region is the North part of Africa?
Arid/Dry
How many different Forests biomes are there?
4 (Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Coniferous Forests, Tiaga/Boreal Forests, and Tropical Rainforest)
What is the sphere surrounding our world that we breathe everyday?