Thematic Maps, Maps with a Theme
Latitude & Longitude
Let's Try Our Luck
Vocab? You mean words we should know?
Practice with maps
100

DAILY DOUBLE: How are vegetation and land use connected?

Land Use is restricted by the vegetation that grows in an area.
100
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
100

What type of map would I use to find the nearest tropical grassland?

What is a vegetation map?

100

DAILY DOUBLE: What type of map would I use to find where the nearest mountain range is?

What is a physcial map? 

100

What would I find if I traveled to E4 using the grid?

What are the Great Apes?

200

Oklahoma is known for tornados, Florida is known for hurricanes, Montana is known for really bad thunderstorms

What map type would show me this information?

What is a climate map?

200

Name three famous lines of latitude

What are the equator, tropic of cancer, and capricorn?

200

DAILY DOUBLE: 

What is the relative location?

Give me an example.

What is a location related to another, known location?

Ex: I am standing near the track outside of Karrer Middle School

200

What is the difference between relative location and absolute location?

What is RELATIVE LOCATION is the location compared to another place and ABSOLUTE is the precise point where a place is located.

200

Fill in the blank. Utah is ______ of Colorado.

What is west?

300

I really want to figure out what part of the United States has the most people living in it

What is a population density map?

300
Longitude lines run from 0 degrees to ______ degrees 

What is 180 degrees?

300

What hemispheres would Europe be found in?

What are North and East?

300

What is climate?

What is a weather pattern in an area?

300

What does the yellow area in the Southeast area of the map represent? 

What is the beach?

400

What type of map is shown below?

What is an economic activity map?

400

The North pole is at ________ degrees latitude and the South pole is at ______ degrees latitude.

What are 90 degrees (North and South)?

400

The city of Elk Lake, Canada is at (35 W, 88 N).


What is wrong with these coordinates?

North and South must come first when writing coordinates.

400

What three characteristics help us divide the world into regions?

What are culture, climate, and physical features?

400

Name two states west of Ohio?

What is Indiana, Illionois, etc.?

500

Name four different thematic map types.

Polticial, Physical, Pop density, Climate, Econ Activity, etc.

500

What continent would the coordinate 45 S, 80 W most likely be on?

1. South America

2. North America

3. Europe

What is South America?

500

Los Angeles, California is 250 miles from San Fransisco.

The map scale says that 25 miles = 1 inch.

How many inches apart are these cities?

What is 10 inches?

500

What is vegetation?

Give me one example (from our Disney activity) of different vegetation zones

Plants and tree life in an area

Highlands, ice cap, coniferous forest, mixed forest, etc.

500

Using Scale: About how far away is Pittsburgh from Albany?

What is about 400-450 miles?