How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is movement.
100
The area of a given space on the map corresponds to in the real world.
What is scale.
100
Explains the shading and symbols on a map.
What is a key.
100
A map that shows the physical, or natural, features of the land.
What is a physical map.
200
North, East, South, and West are...
What are cardinal directions.
200
An area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history.
What is a region.
200
Computer based systems that store and use information linked to geographic locations.
What are geographic information systems (GIS).
200
A diagram on a map showing direction.
What is a compass rose.
200
Height above sea level.
What is elevation.
300
The study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth.
What is geography.
300
How people affect their environment, or their natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them.
What is human-environment interaction.
300
Loss of accuracy in size or position of objects on a map.
What is distortion.
300
Shows where the area on a map in located within a larger area.
What is a locator map.
300
This map shows states and countries.
What is a political map.
400
What is the difference between longitude and latitude?
What is...
Longitude is the distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian.
Latitude is the distance north or south of the equator.
400
Refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.
Ex. Population, climate, etc.
What is place.
400
Ways to map Earth on a flat surface (Equal-Area, Mercator, and Robinson).
What are projections.
400
Shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on land.
What is a scale bar.
400
This type of map shows the location or distribution of human or physical features (ex. Used in presidential elections).
What is a special-purpose map.
500
What two hemispheres do you live in?
What are the northern and western hemispheres.
500
What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
What is ...
Absolute location describes a place's exact location in terms of longitude and latitude.
Relative location describes the location of something in relation to another location. Ex. Dublin is 36 miles southeast of San Francisco.
500
What is is the difference between aerial photographs and satellite images?
What is ...
Aerial photographs show greater detail on one specific place and satellite images capture a larger area and show less specifics and details.
500
List two things you may find in the key of a map.
What is ...
Freeways, state capital, highways, national forests, elevation, borders, etc.
500
What kind of information can maps show? Give three examples.
What is ...
Physical landscape, political boundaries, ecosystem zones, etc.