WGU IOC4 - Module 8 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Relief Map | Demonstrate contour of subject area with shaded lines or areas. Can be 3D. |
Climate Map | Contour lines or shading to demonstrate long-term weather conditions. |
Political Map | Use lines and or colors to demonstrate the boundaries of political entities (most common type of map). Used to demonstrate political boundaries, populations, and affiliations. ONLY MAP WITH BORDERS. |
Road Map | (or physical map) Colors, lines, symbols, tints, and shading to demonstrate physical characteristics of the subject area. (Landforms, mountains, lakes, rivers) |
Cylindrical Projection | Most successful flat maps. Visualizes the globe projected into a cylinder. Equator is tangent to globe and meridians are parallel to each other. |
Conic Projection | Introduced in 20th Century. Superimpose a cone on the globe, projecting the surface features on a flat map with the parallels as arcs of circles with the pole. Preserve shape and relationship but hard to understand. |
Equal Area Projection | Most useful projection maps used today. USe horizontal parallels. Usually split mid-ocean to maintain continuity of land masses. |
Mercator | This person created the 1st projection map in 16th century. Only used today to capture the correct shape of objects. |
Robinson | Modified equal area projection maps in the 20th century. Technically not equal area but orthophanic. Used by US Geographic Service. |
Mollweide | 1 of best equal area projection maps. (19th century) |
Cardinal Direction | N,S,E,W on a map |
Mountains | A landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. |
Rivers | A natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. |
Bodies of Water | Streams, Lakes, Rivers, Oceans ... |
Scale | Relative sizes of map and reality. Small scale = world map. Large scale = street map. |
Borders | define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal Jurisdictions, such as governments, states or sub-national administrative divisions. Only used on political maps. |
Continents | Zone of several large landmasses on Earth. |
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