Parts of the Map
This explains the subject of the map and gives you an idea of what information the map conveys.
What is the map title?
This theme of geography refers to a specific place or position on the Earth's surface. There are two types: absolute and relative
What is Location?
This type of map show human made features such as cities and roads.
What are Political Maps?
These are two dimensional representations of the earth’s surface.
What are maps?
This is the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth’s surface.
What is Geography?
This lists and explains the symbols and use of color on the map.
What is the legend or key?
This theme of geography analyzes the movement of people, goods, ideas, and information across different regions.
What is movement?
This type of map show landforms and elevation.
What are Physical Maps?
Which are more accurate: maps or globes?
Globes
Sometimes people have to go to a new place in order to get a better job. Which theme of geography does this situation represent?
Movement
This is the 0° line of Latitude.
What is the Equator?
This theme of geography focuses on the relationship between people and their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interactions?
This type of map show how many people live per square mile or kilometer.
What are population maps?
These are are human made objects that orbit the earth.
What are satellites?
These are the intermediate directions of a compass rose.
What are northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest?
This shows the ratio of distance on the map to distance on the earth
What is the map scale?
This theme of geography describes the characteristics of a location, including physical features like mountains or climate, as well as human characteristics like culture and language
What is place?
This type of map show elevation using isolines.
Which show more detail: maps or globes?
Maps
This is an object or tool that tells us about the people from the past.
What is an artifact?
This is the 0° line of Longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This theme of geography describes a geographic area with shared characteristics that distinguish it from other areas, like cultural similarities or physical features.
What is region?
This type of map shows a large area but without much detail.
What are small scale maps?
This map projection is used to compare data in atlases, and it has rounded edges.
What is the Robinson Projection?
This type of map shows items that are valuable to humans
What are resource maps?