What is the difference between a a physical, political and special purpose map?
Physical map shows major physical features of a region like deserts, mountains and plains.
Political map shows borders between countries, and major cities.
Special purpose map shows one specific theme or topic like religion or climate or population.
Define equator.
An imaginary line of latitude around the earth, dividing Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Difference between human and physical characteristics?
Physical features naturally exist in an area, like terrain, mountains, water. Human features are what humans have built, like buildings and dams.
What is the same between a map and a globe?
Both--
Show what the world looks like,show countries and cities, show mountains, deserts, oceans
Define the 6 basic geography terms in your geographical dictionary.
ocean, plain, island, lake, plateau, mountain
What are the 4 hemispheres of the world?
northern southern eastern and western hemispheres
What is the difference between a map and a globe?
Globe is -
life-like model of Earth,
sphere/ball,
harder to carry around than maps,
expensive,
spins/rotates.
Map is --
able to show more information (usually),
flat,
inexpensive,
less accurate (some details may be distorted),
easy to use/carry
