Projections & Locations and a little vocabulary
This type of projection shows most of the continents as they look on a globe
What is Mercator projections.
This type of map shows features that humans have created on the Earth's surface.
What is a political map?
Sometimes this is called a key.
What is a legend?
This indicates the subject of the map and tells you what information it contains.
What is the title?
The frame of the tipi is made from this.
What are pine poles?
A land mass above water on Earth
What in a continent?
The study of people, places, and their environment
What is geography?
This type of projection shows land-masses shapes and sizes accurately but distances are not correct.
What is a Homolosine Projection?
On this type of map, colors, symbols, dots, or lines are used to help you see patterns related to a specific area.
What is a qualitative map?
Imaginary lines that show distances east or west of the prime meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
I am part of a compass rose. I am located between the cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions.
Watches over the tipi during the day and warns of danger.
What is the coyote?
The location of one place in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
The beliefs, customs, and ways of life that a group of people share
What is culture
This type of projection shows the entire earth with continents and oceans having nearly their true sizes and shapes. The land masses near the poles appear flattened.
What is a Robinson Projection?
This type of map focuses on specific ideas. They may show climates, types of vegetation, populations, economic activities etc...
What is a thematic map?
This lists and explains the symbols the symbols and colors used on a map.
What is a legend or a key?
Lines of longitude are sometimes called this.
What are meridians?
This secures the tipi to the ground. It is represented as the claws of the Badger.
What are stakes?
A type of map that focuses on one specific idea or theme
What are thematic Maps?
Ways of showing the curved surface of Earth on a flat map.
What are projections?
This shows an exact location shown by coordinates.
What is an absolute loctaion?
This map helps you see the landforms and bodies of water in specific areas.
What is a physical map?
This is a term for half of the globe. The globe can be divided into northern and southern and separated by the equator or western and eastern and separated by the prime meridian.
What is a hemisphere?
Lines of latitude are sometimes called this.
What are parallels?
Watches over the tipi and night and warns of danger.
What is the owl?
The exact spot on Earth where a place can be found
What is absolute Location?
The people and groups of people that have the power to make laws and see that they are obeyed
What is government?
I am a location thats position is in relation to other places. For example, Medicine Crow Middle School is near Walmart in the heights.
What is relative location?
This type of map illustrates movements of people, goods, or ideas.
What is a flow-line map?
Imaginary lines that show distances north or south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This compares a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on Earth.
What is a scale?
This holds the tipi cover together. It represents the wing feathers of the eagle.
What are pins?
To move from one area to settle in another.
What is to migrate?
The study of the past with the help of written records
What is History?
The economic, political, and social dependence of culture regions on one another
What is interdependence?
An area of the world in which many people share similar beliefs, history, and languages.
What is culture region?
Lines that run between the North and South Pole (Also called meridians)
What is longitude?
Lines that run parallel to the Equator
What are lines of latitude?
The Grizzley bear represents this part of the tipi.
What is the entrance?
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
The Study of the ways in which people produce and exchange goods
What are economics?