Map Skills
How many Continents are there?
What is 7
How many oceans are there?
What is 5
How do you remember the 5 themes of Geography?
What is MR. HELP?
(Movement, Region, Human Environmental Interactions, Location, Place)
What is Movement?
What is the movement of people, places, and ideas?
What is location?
What is where something is?
What are the 3 types of Map Projections?
A Map Projection is when you take to globe and make a flat version of it.
What is conical (cone shaped), planner (top of globe near poles), and compromise (rectangle shaped; what pirate maps usually look like)?
What is the equator?
What is the imaginary line that goes across the globe horizontally (crosses South America, South Africa, and Japan)?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is the line that goes from the north pole to the South Pole, crossing through West Africa?
What is Place?
what is the natural and human characteristics of a location?
(natural- mountains and oceans)
(human- culture and clothing style)
What is Region?
What is an area with define able characteristics that set it apart from other areas?
What are the 3 Compromise Projections?
Compromise Map Projections are the flat and rectangle version of the globe. (you may have one in your classroom)
What is Mercator, Homolosine, and Robinson?
What are the 4 hemispheres?
What is North, South, East, West hemispheres?
What is a Globe?
What is the most accurate version of the Earth?
What is Human Environmental Interactions?
What is how human engage with their envronment?
a region that has official boundaries drawn by humans
What is a formal region?
What are the 3 Basic Maps?
What is Political (shows boundaries like between Mississippi and Alabama), Physical (shows mountains and lakes), and Thematic (shows a topic with colors, lines, and dots)?
A projection on a flat surface that distorts the size and shape of Earth's surface
What is a Planar Map Projection?
A projection onto a cylinder that shows the entire earth on a map
What is a Compromise Map Projection?
a region with surrounding areas tied to it
What is a functional region?
an exact location with map coordinates or an address
What is absolute location?
a term that describes the study of earth's physical features, spatial distributions, the characteristics of the humans that inhabit it, and how humans and their environment interact with one another
What is geography?
A projection onto a cone that shows the shape of the Earth accurately but distorts the landmasses at the edges
What is a Conical Map Projection?
What are the 3 types of thematic maps?
What is qualitative, cartogram, and flow-line thematic maps?
a region that does not have formal boundaries but is commonly known (may change depending on point of view)
What is a perceptual region?
one point compared to another point
What is relative location?