Types of Maps
Which type of map shows physical features like mountains and rivers?
What is physical map?
What theme of geography describes where a place is?
what is Location?
What line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is the equator?
The compass rose shows these
What are cardinal directions (east, west, south, north)?
The percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
What is 75%?
What is an example of a special purpose map?
What is an election map or a drought map (also known as a drought monitor map)?
Which theme involves how people adapt to and change their environment?
what is human-environment interaction?
What is the imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole at 0 degrees longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
Part of a map that explains symbols used
What is a legend?
The force makes a compass point north?
What is the magnetism?
Which map shows the borders of countries?
What is Political map?
What theme is about the physical and human characteristics of a location?
What is Place?
What do latitude and longitude lines form on a map?
What is a coordinate grid?
Part of a map that allows us to determine distances between places
What is a scale?
Name two roles rivers played in making the U.S. wealthy.
They provided routes for shipping and trading
AND
They provided Power for Industry
These maps are created for a specific purpose or group of users.
A special purpose map.
How people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another
What is movement?
How are latitude and longitude used together?
They are used to determine absolute location
What is the difference between a map’s title and its legend?
The title shows what a map is about while legend shows what the symbols on it mean
the mountain range must be crossed to travel from the Great Plains to California?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What does a physical map use to show elevation and relief on a legend?
What are colors and shading?
What theme is illustrated by the Midwest being called the "Corn Belt"?
What is a Region?
These are the 2 hemispheres that we are currently in
Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere
The four intermediate directions.
What are Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, and Southeast?
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Climate is the usual weather pattern over time, while weather is the condition at a specific time.