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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Types of Maps
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Latitude/Longitude
100
Tells you what the map is about.
What is map title?
100
An imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
100
Shows the physical features of an area.
What is a physical map?
100
A figure on a map that has the cardinal directions on it.
What is a compass rose?
100
The Earth is in the shape of a _______.
What is a sphere?
200
A table/chart that helps you decode a map.
What is a legend?
200
A line that runs through Greenwich, England at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
200
Shows the national boundaries of countries, states, and/or cities.
What is a political map?
200
North, south, east, and west are called this.
What is cardinal directions?
200
Both North America and South America are found in this hemisphere.
What is the western hemisphere?
300
Shows the relationship between the distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground.
What is a map scale?
300

Several farmers use the practice of crop rotation to preserve nutrients in the soil. 

What is Human-Environment Interaction?

300
Shows information about a region's precipitation and weather.
What is a climate map?
300
Directions in between north, south, east, and west.
What is intermediate directions?
300
Explain the difference between 85 degrees north latitude and 85 degrees south latitude.
What is "one direction is in the northern hemisphere and one direction is in the southern hemisphere."
400
A part of the map that will show a larger detailed area of a particular location.
What is an insert map?
400

Shows streets or highways of smaller areas used to help people to get from place to place.

What is a road map?

400
Shows the natural resources/economic activity of a particular area.
What is a resource/economic map?
400
Name the 4 hemispheres.
What is northern, southern, eastern, and western hemisphere?
400
Parallel lines that measure distance in degrees north and south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
500
Specific coordinates of a particular place.
What is absolute location?
500
A location of a place in relation to another.
What is relative location?
500
DAILY DOUBLE - Uses contour lines to show the shape an elevation of an area.
What is a topographic map?
500
Pierre, South Dakota is 2 inches away from Los Angeles, California on a map. The map scale says 1 inch equals 520 miles. How many miles are the two cities away from one another?
What is 1,040 miles?
500
Meridian lines that measure distance in degrees east and west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?