Maps
This image shows directions on a map.
What is a compass/compass rose?
It's the word for half of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
Canals, religions, farms, languages, and bridges.
What are examples of human geography?
It's the line where people travel over into a new day.
What is the International Date Line?
It's sort of like a street address, the very specific place for a city on the map.
What is absolute location?
What is a map key?
It gives us the four seasons and takes 365 1/4 days to complete.
Mountains, deserts, oceans, and rivers.
What are examples of physical geography?
It's where we begin measuring parallels of latitude.
What is 0 degrees, the equator?
They're the four oceans of the Earth.
What is the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific?
Map scale.
What shows us distances on a map?
It takes 24 hours and gives us day and night.
What is rotation?
What is economic activity?
Parallels of latitude.
What are the lines that measure north and south on a grid of the earth?
Spatial.
What is the relationship between things are arranged in/on a space?
It is the way we represent the spherical Earth on a flat surface.
What is map projection?
Revolution.
The average number of people who live in a unit of area, like people per square mile.
What is population density?
Meridians of longitude.
What are the lines that measure east and west on a grid of the earth?
He's the Greek scholar who was the first to attempt to draw a map of the world.
Who was Herodotus?
Distortion.
What is the change in shape, size, or position of a place when it's shown on a map?
Climate.
What is the pattern of weather over a long period of time?
They are usually colorful and can show rainfall, population density, or vegetation.
What is a thematic map?
It's where we begin measuring meridians of longitude.
What is 0 degrees, the Prime Meridian?
They're the seven continents, in order from largest to smallest.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?