Map Crossword
Across
- 1. A guide identifying what the map’s symbols and colors represent.
- 3. This map projection is still widely used in navigation.
- 5. The art and science of making maps.
- 8. Map type showing coastlines, cities, and rivers that use contour lines to show elevation differences.
- 9. A navigation system typically utilized by cars.
- 10. Map projection that distorts the size and shape of the map to show statistical data.
- 11. Imaginary lines that run east-west, parallel to the equator.
- 13. Another name for the prime meridian. It is also a district in England.
Down
- 2. Line that separates the Earth into two hemispheres.
- 4. Mathematician who computed the circumference of the Earth.
- 6. Maps that display distributions—or patterns—over the Earth's surface.
- 7. Cartographer who made European maps during the Middle Ages.
- 12. The relationship between distance on a map and actual distance on the Earth.