Coordinates and Climates
Map Projections
African Lakes
The Great Lakes
Asian and South American Lakes
100
This line of latitude measures 0°
What is the Equator?
100
This kind of map is best used for small areas, for example: the United States.
What is a Conic projection?
100
This lake was named after a British monarch.
What is Lake Victoria?
100
This lake is the largest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Superior?
100
This lake is 12,507 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains.
What is Lake Titicaca?
200
This climate zone has very little precipitation.
What is the arctic zone?
200
This map projection is best used at the Poles.
What is a Planar Projection?
200
This lake is the longest in the world.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
200
This is the smallest of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Ontario?
200
This lake lies between Asia and Europe and is considered to be the largest lake in the world.
Caspian Sea
300
This climate zone lies between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
What is the Tropical Climate zone?
300
This kind of map is least useful for exploring the North Pole
What is a Mercator Projection?
300
A shallow lake often called a "drowned prairie".
What is Lake Chad?
300
The USS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on this lake in 1975.
What is Lake Superior?
300
This lake was once the 4th largest lake in the world but has shrunk significantly.
What is the Aral Sea?
400
Lines that run North South and used to measure distance East or West relative to the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
400
This kind of map is called a "compromise projection".
What is a Robinson projection?
400
This lake is the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Victoria?
400
This lake connects to the St. Lawrence River via the St. Lawrence Seaway
What is Lake Ontario?
400
This lake is often considered to be a gulf rather than a lake since it is not completely surrounded by land.
What is Lake Maracaibo?
500
This city is at around 33°N, 97°W
Dallas, Texas
500
This projection was invented in 1569 by a Flemish cartographer
What is a Mercator Projection?
500
This lake formed in a rift valley and is the second largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
500
This is the only great lake that lies entirely within the borders of the US.
What is Lake Michigan?
500
This lake is rich in oil and experiences the most lightning in the world.
What is Lake Maracaibo?