Continents & Oceans
The ocean between North America and Europe.
What is the Atlantic?
0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
When determining the reliability of a map, it is important to know these two facts about the publication.
What is the source and the date?
Population map.
What is special purpose?
A rectangular map projection used for navigation hundreds of years ago.
What is a Mercator map?
A recently recognized fifth ocean.
What is the Southern Ocean?
0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
When mapping absolute location, this coordinate comes first.
Rivers in Africa.
What is physical?
A rectangular map introduced in the 1970s that emphasized the relative size of each continent.
What is a Peters map?
The largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
The ocean where the Prime Meridian and Equator cross.
In order to travel from North America to Africa, you must move in this intermediate direction.
What is southeast?
Capital cities in Europe.
What is political?
A common issue with all 2-D (flat) maps.
What is distortion?
The continent formally known as "Australia."
What is Oceania?
Lines of latitude are measured in these two cardinal directions.
People living in the United States live in these two hemispheres.
What is northern and western?
A climate map.
Special purpose map.
Non-rectangular maps are more commonly used today. They have lines of latitude and longitude that are ______________________.
What is curved?
The continent west of the Indian Ocean.
What is Africa?
Lines of longitude are measured in these two types of cardinal directions.
What is east and west?
The map element that explains the relationship between distance on a map and distance on the Earth's surface.
What is a scale?
A map showing elevation (height of land above sea level).
What is a physical map?
How people change the places they live; a theme.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?