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Maps
Cat 1 - 100
90 degrees
How far can you measure north or south of
the equator?
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Cat 1 - 200
23.5 degrees north latitude.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
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Cat 1 - 300
66.5 degrees south latitude
What is the Antarctic Circle?
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Cat 1 - 400
Parallels
What is the synonym for latitude?
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Cat 1 - 500
East to west and north to south
Which direction do latitude lines run, and
which direction do they measure distance?
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Cat 2 - 100
0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
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Cat 2 - 200
180 degrees.
How far can you measure east or west of the
Prime Meridian?
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Cat 2 - 300
Meridians.
What is the synonym for longitude?
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Cat 2 - 400
Two
How many fixed points of reference does
longitude have?
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Cat 2 - 500
North to south and east to west
Which direction do longitude lines run, and
which direction do they measure distance?
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Cat 3 - 100
Lines that run north to south but measure east
to west.
What are longitude lines?
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Cat 3 - 200
This shows the four cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
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Cat 3 - 300
These are the 3 fixed points of reference for
latitude in the northern hemisphere.
What are the North Pole, Arctic Circle and
Tropic of Cancer?
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Cat 3 - 400
The Prime Meridian and the International
Dateline
What are the two fixed points of reference for
longitude?
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Cat 3 - 500
These separate the earth into the northern and
southern hemisphere and the eastern and
western hemisphere.
What are the Equator and Prime Meridian?
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Cat 4 - 100
Political, physical and special purpose/
thematic.
What are the three types of maps?
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Cat 4 - 200
This map shows cities, states, and countries
What is a political map?
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Cat 4 - 300
This explains what the symbols and colors on
a map mean.
What is a legend or key?
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Cat 4 - 400
To study changes in population you would use
this type of map.
What is a special purpose map?
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Cat 4 - 500
This represents the distance on the map to the
relative distance on the ground.
What is scale?
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Cat 5 - 100
Mercator/Cylindrical, Conic, FlatPlane/Lambert Equal area.
What are the three types of map projections?
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Cat 5 - 200
This is what all maps show.
What is distortion?
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Cat 5 - 300
This type of projection is used for nautical
navigation.
What is the Mercator or cylindrical
projection?
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Cat 5 - 400
This projection is best for large landmasses
that run east to west.
What is the conic projection?
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Cat 5 - 500
This map is good for showing the polar
regions and small places of roughly equal
area.
What is a flat-plane or Lambert Equal Area
projection?
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Cat 6 - 100
This is number of themes we have discussed
in class.
What is 5?
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Cat 6 - 200
These are the themes of Geography
What are location, place, movement, region,
and interaction?
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Cat 6 - 300
“315 E. Eleventh Street” is an example of this
theme.
What is absolute location or site?
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Cat 6 - 400
A person arriving from Austria to Switzerland
is an example of this theme.
What is movement?
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Cat 6 - 500
Mining for gold is an example of this theme.
What is human-environment interaction?
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