Geographer's Toolbox Review

This line is used to divide the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

This type of location tells exactly where a place is, giving an address or global grid coordinates.

North America is located which of the following Hemispheres?

What is this?

According to this map scale, 1 inch = 100 miles. How many inches are between Baton Rouge and Columbus?

This tool on a map helps you understand what colors, symbols, and lines or markings mean.

The world is divided into four of these.

This type of map projection shows land in the CORRECT SIZE, but it distorts shapes.

Globes show more detail than maps.

The global grid coordinates of Denver are

What degree of Longitude and Latitude does the Prime Meridian and Equator intersect at?

This theme of Geography is used to study how information is exchanged.

This type of map projection is the most common in our textbook because it is a mixture of the other two.

These lines run Parallel to the Equator.

Las Vegas is located between which lines of latitude?

Which is bigger, a country or a continent?

This type of map projection shows land in the SAME SHAPE AND DIRECTION, but distorts distance and size.

You can only see half the world at once on a globe.

This line is used to divide the Northern & Southern Hemisphere.

The global grid coordinates of Las Vegas are

This map tool helps you estimate the size of the area being shown or distances on the map.

Globes are more accurate than maps.

These lines run east and west of the Prime Meridian. Also known as meridians.

Which of the 5 Themes of Geography tells where a place is?

Which symbol would be used for Washington D.C, the capital of our nation?

In which grid square is the green hut located?

What direction would you travel from Denver to Phoenix?

There are seven continents. Which one is the United States a part of?

This theme is about how geographers study what a place looks like and what is unique about it.

This theme refers to how people have an effect on their surroundings.