The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth.
What is geography?
100
A mapmaker.
What is cartographer?
100
Introduced by the Chinese around the 1100s helped to accurately determine direction.
What is the magnetic compass?
100
Projection that shows the earth so that a line from the central point to any other point on the map gives the shortest distance between the two points.
What is a planar projection?
100
In this map geographers present information about a country based on a set of data other than land area.
What is a cartogram?
200
The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found.
What is absolute location?
200
A three-dimensional representation of the earth.
What is a globe?
200
A type of surveying instrument, it percisely measures angles and distances on the earth.
What is a theodolite?
200
A type of compromise projection, commonly used in textbooks. It shows the entire earth with nearly the true sizes and shapes of the continents and oceans.
What is a Robinson projection?
200
This map will help you to see the landforms and bodies of water found in a specific area.
What is a physical map?
300
Organized around a set of interactions and connections between places.
What is functional regions?
300
A series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above the earth.
What is Landsat?
300
A legend or key lists and explains the symbols and use of color on the map.
What is a legend?
300
A compromise projection in which the shapes of the continents are distorted at the poles and somewhat compressed near the equator.
What is a Mercator projection?
300
This map uses colors, symbols, dots, or lines to help you see patters related to a specific idea.
What is a qualitative map?
400
How far across the earth a person, an idea, or a product travels.
What is linear distance?
400
What are the three basic types of maps?
What is general reference, thematic, and nautical maps?
400
Show you the north, south, east, and west directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
400
This type of map is projected onto a cone.
What is a conical projection?
400
This map shows features on the earth's surface that humans created.
What is a political map?
500
The Western and Easter Hemispheres are divided at this point.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Around 255 B.C. this man was able to calculate the circumference of the earth by using the length of a shadow at two points and the distance between those two points.
Who is Eratosthenes?
500
Shows the ratio between a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on the earth.
What is a scale?
500
This projection shows the accurate shapes and sizes of the landmasses, but distances on the map are not correct.
What is a homolosine projection?
500
This map illustrates the movement of people, goods, ideas, animals, or even glaciers.