1. Latitude 100 200 300 400 500 Longitude 100 200 300 400 500 Longitude and Latitude 100 200 300 400 500 Maps 100 200 300 400 500 Map Projections 100 200 300 400 500 Potpourri 100 200 300 400 500 Jeopardy

2. Cat 1 - 100 Back How far can you measure north or south of the equator? 90 degrees

3. Cat 1 - 200 Back What is the Tropic of Cancer? 23.5 degrees north latitude.

4. Cat 1 - 300 Back What is the Antarctic Circle? 66.5 degrees south latitude

5. Cat 1 - 400 Back What is the synonym for latitude? Parallels

6. Cat 1 - 500 Back Which direction do latitude lines run, and which direction do they measure distance? East to west and north to south

7. Back Cat 2 - 100 What is the Prime Meridian? 0 degrees longitude.

8. Back Cat 2 - 200 How far can you measure east or west of the Prime Meridian? 180 degrees.

9. Back Cat 2 - 300 What is the synonym for longitude? Meridians.

10. Back Cat 2 - 400 How many fixed points of reference does longitude have? Two

11. Back Cat 2 - 500 Which direction do longitude lines run, and which direction do they measure distance? North to south and east to west

12. Back Cat 3 - 100 What are longitude lines? Lines that run north to south but measure east to west.

13. Back Cat 3 - 200 What is a compass rose? This shows the four cardinal directions.

14. Back Cat 3 - 300 What are the North Pole, Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer? These are the 3 fixed points of reference for latitude in the northern hemisphere.

15. Back Cat 3 - 400 What are the two fixed points of reference for longitude? The Prime Meridian and the International Dateline

16. Back Cat 3 - 500 What are the Equator and Prime Meridian? These separate the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere and the eastern and western hemisphere.

17. Back Cat 4 - 100 What are the three types of maps? Political, physical and special purpose/ thematic.

18. Back Cat 4 - 200 What is a political map? This map shows cities, states, and countries

19. Back Cat 4 - 300 What is a legend or key? This explains what the symbols and colors on a map mean.

20. Back Cat 4 - 400 What is a special purpose map? To study changes in population you would use this type of map.

21. Back Cat 4 - 500 What is scale? This represents the distance on the map to the relative distance on the ground.

22. Back Cat 5 - 100 What are the three types of map projections? Mercator/Cylindrical, Conic, Flat- Plane/Lambert Equal area.

23. Back Cat 5 - 200 What is distortion? This is what all maps show.

24. Back Cat 5 - 300 What is the Mercator or cylindrical projection? This type of projection is used for nautical navigation.

25. Back Cat 5 - 400 What is the conic projection? This projection is best for large landmasses that run east to west.

26. Back Cat 5 - 500 What is a flat-plane or Lambert Equal Area projection? This map is good for showing the polar regions and small places of roughly equal area.

27. Back Cat 6 - 100 What is 5? This is number of themes we have discussed in class.

28. Back Cat 6 - 200 What are location, place, movement, region, and interaction? These are the themes of Geography

29. Back Cat 6 - 300 What is absolute location or site? “315 E. Eleventh Street” is an example of this theme.

30. Back Cat 6 - 400 What is movement? A person arriving from Austria to Switzerland is an example of this theme.

31. Back Cat 6 - 500 What is human-environment interaction? Mining for gold is an example of this theme.