Map Features
Types of maps
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Lat vs Long
Potpourri
100
What is a compass rose?
100
This type of map is used to show mountains, lakes, deserts, and other landforms.
What is a physical map?
100
These are the four cardinal directions.
What are North, South, East, and West?
100
This is the line that runs along 0° Latitude, cutting the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
100
There are 7 of these on the globe.
What are continents?
200
This box contains all symbols used on a map.
What is a legend (or key)?
200
This type of map is used to show borders, names, and boundaries.
What is a political map?
200
It's the continent that lies to the west of Europe.
What is North America?
200
These lines measure north or south and run parallel to the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
200
A person who makes maps is called this.
What is a cartographer?
300
What is a scale?
300
I would use this type of map to find my way, especially on a ship.
What is a navigational map?
300
This country shares a border with Germany and lies directly north of it.
What is Denmark?
300
These lines run vertically across the globe and help us define position.
What are lines of longitude?
300
This is a map projection that makes northern continents seem much larger than they actually appear.
What is the Mercator projection?
400
It's the thing that scales measure on a map.
What is distance?
400
It's called this, usually marked with a broken line, when countries don't agree on their borders.
What is a disputed boundary or border?
400
This country has the southernmost land in the world.
What is Chile?
400
It's the imaginary line of longitude that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Maps of the world from Japan tend to have this ocean in the middle.
What is the Pacific?
500
This piece of information shows what a map represents.
What is a title?
500
These types of maps show specific data.
What is a thematic map?
500
This is the northernmost country in Africa.
What is Tunisia?
500
This round number, in degrees, is the latitudinal value of the Equator.
What is zero degrees?
500
If I want to get more specific than a degree for a measurement of latitude or longitude, I would use these unusual measurements.
What are minutes and seconds?