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Map Components
Latitude/Longitude
Map Types
Tools of the Geographer
Wild Card
100
The device on a map that explains the distance between locations.
What is scale?
100
The lines that show direction north and south; parallels
What is Latitude?
100
This type of map shows man-made locations on a map such as cities, counties, states, and countries.
What is a political map?
100
This tool gives the reader the directions (north, south, east, and west).
What is a compass?
100
A box on a map that explains what the symbols and colors represent on a map.
What is a key?
200
This explains what the map is showing and usually what type of map it is.
What is map title?
200
The lines that show direction east to west; meridians
What is Longitude?
200
This map emphasizes a particular theme or or special topic
What is a thematic map/special purpose map?
200
A tool used to take the altitude of the sun or stars to figure location when navigating.
What is an astrolabe?
200
A location of a place in connection with another place.
What is relative location?
300
This system divides up a map using Latitude and Longitude to break up the map into squares.
What is Grid System?
300
A location below the equator is in this hemisphere.
What is Southern Hemisphere?
300
This map shows landforms created in nature such as rivers, mountains, and lakes.
What is a physical map?
300
A tool that uses angular distances of the sun, moon, and stars to figure latitude and longitude.
What is a sextant?
300
The continent where the majority of people live based on the population maps we watched in "42 Maps that Explain the World"
What is Asia?
400
This zooms in on a specific part of the map to give a more detailed version of the map.
What is inset map?
400
If a location is below the Equator and to the right of the Prime Meridian, what two hemispheres is it in?
What is the Southern Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere?
400
This color usually shows rainfall on a climate map.
What is green?
400
A computer system that "captures, stores, manipulates, analyzes, manages, and presents all types" of surface data of the earth (dictionary.com)
What is GIS?
400
The exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates.
What is absolute location?
500
All the map components.
What are latitude, longitude, grid system, inset map, scale, map title, compass, and key
500
The location of Chicago, Illinois.
What is 43 degrees north, 90 degrees west
500
A historical map is an example of this type of map.
What is a thematic map?
500
A program started in 1972 utilizing satellites to to capture images of Earth.
What is LANDSAT?
500
Where the Aztecs, Olmecs, and Mayan Empires were.
What is Central America?