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What color is water on most maps?
What is BLUE
100
Name TWO of the four things that can be distorted on a map?
What are SHAPE, AREA, DISTANCE, AND DIRECTION
100
Name TWO ways a map can change over time?
What are WAR, COLONIZATION OR DECOLONIZATION, IMPERIALISM, KNOWLEDGE, DISPUTED PLACES, AND PLACE NAMES.
100
________ are in space and can relay images back to Earth
What are IMAGINARY SATELLITES LOL J/K GUYS
100
Giving directions and how you interpret those directions are considered a part of your personal _________ map
What is MENTAL MAP
200
North, South, East, & West are called the ________ directions.
What are the CARDINAL DIRECTIONS
200
Which map projection makes Greenland look almost as big as South America?
What is the MERCATOR
200
What caused the map of Europe to change significantly from 1914 to 1941?
What is WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
200
A person who draws or produces maps
What is a CARTOGRAPHER
200
What part of a map is used to find orientation?
What is A COMPASS ROSE
300
Part of a map that is used to find the distance between two points?
What is SCALE
300
What type of map projection is used by airline pilots and is take from above the north pole?
What is the POLAR
300
What is the named of the disputed region between India and Pakistan?
What is KASHMIR
300
________ are used to create specialized maps from digital information stored in a databank.
What is GIS or GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
300
This imaginary line run from North to South and is opposite of the Equator
What is THE PRIME MERIDIAN
400
What is used to find absolute location on a map?
What are LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE LINES
400
What type of map projection is used for data representation?
What is the ROBINSON
400
What is another name for the Persian Gulf?
What is the ARABIAN GULF
400
A _________ gives information about a location on a map/
What is LEGEND
400
Which European country broke into smaller countries in the 1990's?
What is Yugoslavia?
500
Term used to describe the location of a geographic feature in relation to nearby features?
What is RELATIVE LOCATION
500
These types of maps show population density, economic activity, resources, language, or ethnicity?
What is are THEMATIC MAPS
500
What did the Portuguese call the island of Taiwan?
What is FORMOSA
500
This satellite orbits the Earth at the equator staying "stationary" with the Earth
What is the GOES SATELLITE
500
________ lines are a way of representing elevation on a map.
What are CONTOUR LINES