Map Types
This subfield of geography focuses on the physical landforms and features of the Earth.
What is Physical Geography?
This terms describes a change in a landform’s original shape, size, distance, or direction represented on a 2D map
What is distortion?
This part of a map tells you what topic the author is informing you about.
What is the title?
This term describes an author's implicit preference and opinions for or against a specific group, person, or idea.
What is bias?
This term describes the method geographers use to map the Earth, and decides what biases the map will contain.
What is a projection?
This type of reference map is used to identify different countries, their borders, and their names.
What is a political map?
This map projection preserves size but distorts shape, angles, and distance.
What is an Equal Area map?
What is a Gall-Peters map?
This part of the map tells you what the shapes and symbols represent.
What is the legend/key?
This acronym helps us assess an author's biases by asking questions about a source.
What is WTF?
This type of Perspective projection shows one side of the Earth as seen from space.
What is an Orthographic Map?
This type of reference map is used to identify natural features like mountains, lakes, and rivers.
What is a physical map?
This problem makes it impossible for cartographers to map the Earth without distortion.
This acronym helps us read maps and understand all of the information they contain.
What is TODALS?
This question helps us understand who a source was made for, and what goal it was trying to achieve.
What is "what audience and purpose was this made for?"
This kind type of map uses lines or colors to show elevation (distance from sea level) and was featured on our camping trip.
What is a topographical map?
This type of thematic map uses colors and shades to represent and compare specific data on a given topic.
What is a choropleth map?
This map projection was recently criticized by the UN for showing Greenland as the same size as Africa.
What is the Mercator map?
What is a conformal projection?
This type of map is oriented toward the Pacific Ocean.
What is a Pacific-Centered map?
This question helps us understand whether the author of a source has reliable qualifications, expertise, or experience.
This tool is the only reliable and accurate physical model of the Earth's surface.
What is a globe?
This type of thematic map uses size and distortion to represent and compare general trends in data on a topic.
What is a cartogram?
This equidistant map projection contains bias against countries farther from the north pole.
What is an Azimuthal projection?
This type of map is oriented with the South Pole at the top of the map.
What is a South-Up map?
This kind of map projection contains a bias against smaller countries north of the equator.
What is an Equal Area, Equal-Earth, or Gall-Peters map projection?
This kind of bias would be present in a map written for Australians in the year 1917 (during WWI).
What is anti-German bias?