Mapvocab quiz

a model of an area of the earth's surface

• terrain
• map
• satellite
• globe

The ratio of a distance represented on a map to the same distance in the real world

• map scale

• equator

• meridian

• geographic information system

a mapmaker

• cartographer
• geographer
• explorer
• navigator

One of the four key geographic directions: north, south, east, and west

• parallel

• equator

• cardinal direction

• thematic map

the great circle of latitude perpendicular to the earth's rotational axis that divides the earth into the northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Arctic Circle
• meridian

• Equator
• Prime Meridian

A line of latitude

• parallel

• meridian

• equator

• map

A line of longitude

• Tropic of Cancer
• Equator
• geographic coordinates

• Meridian

the latitude and longitude used to locate a point on the globe

• geographic coordinates

• meridian

• map scale

• cardinal direction

the transfer of geographic information on a 3D globe onto the 2D surface of a map

• map projections

• map

• map scale

• equator

any line on a map that represents points of equal elevation of the ground surface above or below sea level

• contour line

• equator

• meridian

• map