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Themes Map History Navigation Explorers Misc
FINAL
Themes for 100
What type of Region includes one central place and the surrounding areas affected by it
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Functional Region
Themes 200
What is the line that is located at 0º Longitude
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Prime Meridian
Themes 300What are the imaginary lines used to measure distance North and South of the Equator
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Latitude
Themes 400
Half of the Globe is called …..
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Hemisphere
Themes 500Name of the Line at 180º Longitude
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International Date Line
Map History 100
The first known maps were created by which ancient civilization
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Babylonians
Map History 200
What was the name of the Greek philosopher who created 8 volumes of work titled Geography
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Ptolemy
Map History 300
During the Middle Ages, the center of maps was often occupied by what city?
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Jerusalem
Map History 400
What role did science play during the Middle Ages
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None, it was a time dominated by religious belief
Map History 500
Magellan and his crew will forever be famous for being the first to do what
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Circumnavigate the globe, (even without Magellan
finishing the trip)
Navigation 100
Ptolomy created this device to assist with navigation
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Astrolabe
Navigation 200
What was the problem with the Cross Staff
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Caused sailors to go blind lining up the
angles
Navigation 300
A compass will always face which direction?
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Magnetic North
Navigation 400
What was Columbus looking for when he set sail to the West
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Westward water path to India/Far
East
Navigation 500
A device for navigation that can measure up to 60º
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Sextant
Early Mapping 100
The oldest known map comes from the Babylonians at approx what date
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2300 BCE
Early Mapping 200
The earliest Egyptian Maps were from what date
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1300 BCE
Early Mapping 300
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Ptolomy
What was the name of the Roman citizen who was Greek, living in Egypt, who unlike most Romans was very interested in land outside the Roman Empire
Early Mapping 400
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Land masses too big and oceans too small – produced a globe that was 18,000 miles round at the Equator rather than the 25,000 miles it actually is.
What were the two big mistakes Ptolomy’s madeWhile creating a “map” of the
Early Mapping 500
In the Middle ages, what was used to display wind
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Gods/Fairies/etc
Misc 100
Navigation device that worked well, but caused blindness to its users
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Cross Staff
Misc 200
Type of map that is used by navigators while sailing on the sea
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Portolan Maps
Misc 300
Both Stick maps and portolan maps display this information
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Wind Patterns
Misc 400
Produced maps that displayed everything between 60°N and 60°S accurately, but outside of those lines was distorted
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Mercator
Misc 500
Estimated the earth to be round, and was almost exact as to its size (he was greek)
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Eratosthenes
FINAL JEOPARDY
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1. Scale
2. Long/Lat
3. Geography (the word)
4. Projections
People
Name the 4 items Ptolomy contributed t the world of mapping