MAPS
What shows landforms, political boundaries, ecosystem zones, or any other area feature.
What is a physical map?
Ways we can locate points on the Earth's surface.
What are lines of longitude and latitude?
Hollywood, Napa Valley, the Financial District are all examples of?
What shows political units like states or countries.
What is a political map?
What is the heading of a map?
What is a title?
What are meridians and parallels?
Place has two features. What are they
What is human and physical?
Examples include Northeast, Southwest, Northwest, and Southwest.
What are the intermediate directions?
What refers to the position of a place or entity based on its positive with respect to other locations.
What is relative location?
What is the study of Earth’s seasons, climate, atmosphere, soil, streams, landforms, and oceans
What is Physical Geography?
What does HIE stand for, give an example?
Human interaction with the environment in the Lorax is showcased when the trees are being cut down.
What shows distributions, or patterns over the Earth’s surface. May highlight one theme or topic.
What is a thematic map?
What shows accurate size and shape of most land areas. However, it has distortions especially in areas around the edges
What is a Robinson projection
What are North, South, East, and West?
Two examples of location are?
What is absolute and relative location?
What shows cardinal directions/ other directions?
What is a compass rose?
What shows the correct size of landmasses, but their shapes are distorted. It will also make the north and south poles appear bigger than they are.
What is a Mercador projection
What is the study of the distribution of networks of people and cultures on Earth’s surface
What is human geography?
What are the relationships between people in different places, shaped by the constant movement of people, ideas, materials, and physical systems such as wind, examples include immigration, communication, or trade?
What is Movement
What part of the map is used to show how big it actually is.
What is the scale?