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Geo Terms
Climate Zones
Map Projections
Maps
Mish Mash
100
the pattern of weather over a period of time
What is climate?
100
Has cool winters and warm summers.
What is a temperate climate?
100
This type of projection shows directions between places accurately near the equator; but distorts the size of continents.
What is Mercator?
100
a map that shows population density, vegetation zones, climate zones
What is a thematic map?
100
This is used to indicate the absolute location of a place.
What is a global grid?
200
An area with one or more features that set it apart
What is region?
200
days and nights are about the same in length
What is polar climate?
200
This type shows size accurately but not distance or shape.
What is Lambert?
200
These are found on a physical features map.
What are landforms and bodies of water?
200
North America and South America are located entirely in this hemisphere.
What is western?
300
Coal and iron are examples of?
What are natural resources?
300
Temperature is a characteristic of________.
What is climate?
300
This shows the size of places accurately, an equal area map.
What is Eckert IV?
300
How people make a living
What is an economic activity map?
300
Where a place is located compared to another place
What is relative location?
400
an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is a meridian of longitude?
400
One of the most important factors that affects climate
What is latitude?
400
This balances the distortions of size and shape.
What is Robinson?
400
You can visualize this in your head.
What is a mental map?
400
This compares the distance on a map with distances on Earth
What is a map scale?
500
the precise point where a place is located
What is absolute location?
500
Imaginary lines that run north and south of the tropical climate zone.
What are tropic of cancer and tropic of capicorn?
500
This gives a fairly accurate picture of the world.
What is Robinson?
500
Maps cannot show the correct size or shape of the Earth's features due to this.
What is distortion?
500
The tilt of Earth's axis toward the Sun.
What is the changing of the seasons?