This branch of geography deals with the cultural aspects of a location.
What is human geography?
100
This is the most typically found in school textbooks.
What is Robinson's?
200
This type of projection is used for small, compact areas.
What is Azimuthal?
200
He was known for making a map that sailors could plot latitude and longitude and sail accurately to different locations.
Who is Mercator?
200
This line of latitude is at 0 degrees and bisects the earth into the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
200
Geography comes from two root words, which mean this
What is earth description?
200
These types of maps show the height and depth of land features and include natural and man-made water features.
What are relief maps?
300
This type of map projection is most accurate at the equator.
What is the cylindrical projection?
300
He developed heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Lines of longitude are also called this
What are meridians?
300
This branch of geography deals with the earth and its resources.
What is physical geography?
300
Detailed land features, including their elevation, can be found in these type of maps.
What is a topographic map?
400
The process of transferring information from the Earth to a map causes every projection to do this to at least one aspect of the real world – either shape, area, distance, or direction.
What is distortion?
400
He calculated the circumference of the earth and was only off by 140 miles.
Who is Eratosthenes?
400
0 degrees longitude is also called this
What is the prime meridian?
400
The art of map making is known as this
What is cartography?
400
This map cuts and flattens the earth like an orange peel. It keeps the shapes of the continents accurately, but distorts distances and directions because of its "interrupted" projection.
What is a Goode's map?
500
These projections have been widely employed in national or large-scale regional maps of temperate zones, especially for areas bounded by two moderately close meridians, like Russia or the United States.
What are conic projections?
500
While his official title isn't geographer, he is often credited with making major contributions to mapping the globe due to the distances he and his fellow Macedonians traversed.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
The intersection of the Earth's latitude and longitude lines form this
What is a grid?
500
The lines that separate colors on a relief map are called
What are contour lines?
500
A climate map is an example of these kinds of maps. Another example would be a map showing the population of a particular place.