Maps

Question 0

Define: Cartographers

Answer 0

The people who practice cartography.

Question 1

Define: Cartography

Answer 1

The science or practice of drawing maps.

Question 2

What are the types of maps?

Answer 2

Political Map, Physical Map, Population Map, Road Map, Climate Map, Weather Map, Robinson Projection Map, Natural Resources Map, and Topographic Map.

Question 3

Define: Political map

Answer 3

Show where the countries, capitals, and major cities are located.

Question 4

Define: Physical map

Answer 4

Show where features on the earth’s surface are. Ex: mountains, rivers, lakes, and plains.

Question 5

Define: Population map

Answer 5

Show where people live and how many.

Question 6

Define: Road map

Answer 6

Show major highways and roads, airports, railroad tracks, cities, and other points of interest in an area.

Question 7

Define: Climate map

Answer 7

Give general info about the climate.

Question 8

What are the parts of the map?

Answer 8

The compass rose, the legend/ key, and the scale.

Question 9

Define: compass rose

Answer 9

A symbol that shows where north, south, east, and west are on the map. If a map doesn’t have a compass rose, assume the top of the map is north and the bottom is south, etc.

Question 10

Define: Legend/ Key

Answer 10

Shows the info that is needed to read the map correctly.

Question 11

Define: Scale

Answer 11

Shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in real life.

Question 12

What are the parts of the globe?

Answer 12

Continents, Major Oceans, Latitude and Longitude, Hemispheres, Equator, and Prime Meridian

Question 13

Define: latitude

Answer 13

Refers to the lines that are drawn east and west but they measure north and south of the equator splitting the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Question 14

Define: longitude

Answer 14

Lines run north and south but are numbered and measured east and west from the prime meridian.

Question 15

Latitude

Answer 15

Fat like your waistband

Question 16

Longitude

Answer 16

Longggggggg like your hair

Question 17

Europe is located.

Answer 17

North of Africa and west of Asia.

Question 18

Tropic of Cancer

Answer 18

Is a latitude line located 23.5 degrees north of the equator.

Question 19

The Tropic of Capricorn

Answer 19

Is a latitude line located 23.5 degrees south of the equator.

Question 20

Define: topography

Answer 20

The Northern European plain.

Question 21

Norwegian Fjords

Answer 21

Glaciers cut deep valleys in the ocean during the ice age

Question 22

Peninsulas

Answer 22

Scandinavian, Jutland, Iberian, Italian, and Balkan

Question 23

Islands

Answer 23

Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, British isles.

Question 24

Mountains

Answer 24

Alps are located in northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and France

Question 25

Mountains.

Answer 25

The Pyrenees separate the Iberian peninsula from France

Question 26

Mountains..

Answer 26

Uralic mountains aka the great divide divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

Question 27

Northern Europe

Answer 27

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

Question 28

Western Europe

Answer 28

Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom

Question 29

Central Europe

Answer 29

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland

Question 30

Southern Europe

Answer 30

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Montenegro.

Question 31

Eastern Europe

Answer 31

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, and Ukraine.