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Globes
Mapmaking
Reading maps
Kinds of maps
Miscellaneous
100
A globe is this kind of model of the Earth.
What is scale model?
100
A map is this kind of diagram of all or part of the Earth's surface?
What is flat?
100
You use this device to indicate direction: North, South, East, West.
What is a compass rose?
100
This type of map shows the borders of countries.
What is a political map?
100
We use these to know where things are.
What is map?
200
Large land masses found on the Earth on a globe are called these.
What are continents?
200
These people have different ways of presenting the map.
Who are mapmakers or cartographers?
200
This is a key that helps us explain what the symbols on the map represent.
What is a legend?
200
This is a map that shows the weather patterns in certain areas.
What is a climate map?
200
Opposite of south.
What is north?
300
These lines run parallel to the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
300
Different ways of presenting maps are called these.
What are map projections?
300
Mapmakers use these to represent distances between points on a map.
What is a scale?
300
This type of map shows where people live in a particular region and how populated regions are.
What is a population map?
300
This is the imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North Pole and South Pole.
What is the equator?
400
Lines of longitude are lines drawn from north and this other direction.
What is south?
400

This type of projection is designed from a cylinder wrapped around the globe.

What is a cylindrical map?

400
These are smaller maps are sometimes used to show a small part of a large map.
What are inset maps?
400
This type of map shows important resources.
What is an economic map?
400
The globe is divided into two of these.
What are hemispheres?
500
This is the imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England, from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the prime meridian?
500

This type of projection is a compromise between size and shape distortions.

What is a Robinson projection?

500
These are used to specify the location of things, such as cities that do not take up much space on a large-scale map.
What are point symbols?
500
This a collection of maps.
What is an atlas?
500
The prime meridian stretches from the North Pole to to this other place.
What is the South Pole?