Location
This location is identified by specific coordinates.
What is Absolute Location?
Lines on a map that go north and south.
What is Longitude?
Map designed to show governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water.
What is a Political Map?
This region is along the coast of Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains Region?
The capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
The position of a place as compared to another landmark
What is Relative Location?
Lines on a map that go west and east.
What is Latitude?
Map focuses on the geography of the area and will often have shaded relief to show the mountains and valleys.
What is a Physical Map?
This region is our highest elevated region in Texas.
What is Mountains and Basin?
The largest city in Texas.
What is Houston?
Half of the earth, usually divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves.
What is Hemisphere?
Refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100000 map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground shows distance on a map normally ratio.
What is a scale?
Illustrated with lines, for example a topographic map, which thus shows valleys and hills, and the steepness or gentleness of slopes.
What is a Contour Map?
This is the Region that is 2nd from the East. It includes Forth Worth.
What is the North Central Plains?
This is what Texas means in its native word.
What is "with friends"?
A supercontinent that existed on the Earth millions of years ago and covered about one-third of its surface. (A supercontinent is a very large landmass that is made up of more than one continent)
What is Pangea?
A figure on a map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions on a map shows (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.
What is a Compass Rose?
Designed or created for the special purpose. ... For example a DEM (digital information model) which shows only the elevation value or a map showing heat signatures.
What is a Special Purpose Map?
This region includes much of the Panhandle and is the 2nd region from the west.
What is the Great Plains Region?
The nickname for Texas.
What is the Lone Star State?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0.
What is the Equator?
The earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England zero degrees longitude.
What is Prime Meridian?
Map that shows cities, rivers, and roads.
What is a Road Map?
This Region is the farthest west and includes El Paso.
What is Mountain and Basins?
The river that goes thru Dallas.
What is the Trinity River?