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Maps
Vocab
This and that
Vocab 2
100
Answers "what goods are imported and exported."
What is Movement
100
A symbol that provides cardinal directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
100
A line that runs north south intersecting the earth.
What is longitude?
100
A continent in all 4 hemispheres.
What is Africa?
100
An imaginary line running around the earth east to west.
What is latitude?
200
This answers what the economy is like and its relation to geography.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
200
Provides a way to measure distance on a map.
What is scale?
200
The imaginary line running east to west at 0 degrees.
What is the equator?
200
A projection in which the countries/continents might be very disproportionate.
What is a Mercator projection?
200
We call the points of absolute location these.
What are coordinates?
300
Areas that share 1 common feature.
What are regions?
300
A map that includes borders of countries or states, and may show cities.
What is a political map?
300
Name the 7 continents.
What are South America, North America, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe?
300
A projection in which the lines of longitude are curved.
What is a Robinson projection?
300
Name the oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, and Arctic?
400
Landforms, soil, climate and resources.
What are physical characteristics in place geography?
400
A place on the map indicated by latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
400
It is measured in degrees from 0 to 180.
What is longitude?
400
The area left of Prime Meridien.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
400
Lines of latitude are also called these types of lines.
What are parallels?
500
The 2 types of location.
What are relative and absolute location?
500
This type of map may be 3D.
What is a physical map?
500
North, south, east, west
What are cardinal directions?
500
The depiction of a globe on a flat surface.
What is a projection?
500
The prime meridian runs through this location.
What is the Greenwich, England?