Types of Maps
BOLTS
Hemispheres & More
Distortions and Tilts
Random
100

This type of map shows where earthquakes are likely to hit in the United States.

What is a thematic map?

100

The compass point between North and East.

What is North east?

100

The imaginary line that represents zero degrees latitude.

What is the Equator?

100

The misrepresentation of a map's shape, area, distance, or direction compared to the true measurements of the Earth's curved surface.

What a map projection with a distortion?

100

The names of each of the continents and Oceans.

What are:

North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica - 

Southern Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean?

200

This type of map shows elevation changes and is often used by hikers. 

What are topographic maps?

200

Define Scale. 

What tells you how the distances on the map compare to the actual distances on Earth?

200

If I am living in Australia, the hemispheres I would be living in.

What is the Southern and Eastern hemispheres?

200

This area, marked by lines of latitude, is known to have some of the hottest places on Earth. 

What are the tropics? 

200

The name of the imaginary line that runs vertically down the globe and represents zero degrees longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian?

300

Information like countries, cities, towns, major highways, and bodies of water appear on this type of map.

What is a political map?

300

This tells us how to decipher the symbols on a map. 

What is a legend?

300

If it is the middle of winter in Canada, which country(s) would it be the middle of summer. Think carefully...

What are all the counties, which are the same distance away from the equator as Canada but in the southern hemisphere?

300

The earth is tilted on its axis at this degree. 

What is 23.50?

300

Name the ocean you could be swimming in if you lived in New York.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

400

The one major thing a physical map shows. 

What are physical features?

400

BOLTS stands for this on a map.

What are Border, Orientation, Legend, Title and Scale?

400

These meridians measure in degrees east and west on a map. 

What are lines of longitude? 

400

The seasons are due to... 

What is the earth spinning on its axis while rotating around the sun?

400

These parallels measure degrees in north and south on a map. 

What are the lines of latitude? 

500

The name for a mapmaker.

What is a cartographer?

500

The difference between relative and absolute location.

What is absolute location has exact coordinates to show the exact location of a place while relative location is the position of a place or object in relation to other places or landmarks?

500

The names of the tropics and the line of latitude they run along.

What are the Tropic of Cancer at 23.40 N and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.40 S?

500

The farthest northern and southern points where the sun doesn't shine at all on one day each year.

What are the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle?

500

An imaginary system of lines of latitude and longitude that can be used to locate any point on Earth.

What is the Global Grid?