Map Skills Unit #1 Study Guide

2. Software that combines and analyzes different types of geographic information.
5. The location of a place in relationship to another place or physical feature.
6. A simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something.
8. The study of the locations of people and places on the earth.
10. Explains what different colors and symbols mean on a map.
11. 2-dimensional representations of the world.
13. Sources of information recorded by people who were present when something happened.
15. 0 degrees line of longitude.
16. Spherical representations of the world.
18. Sources of information that were created later by someone who did not experience first-hand.
19. Horizontal lines around the earth.
21. Shows the relationship between a place on the map and in the real world.
22. Lines that stretch from the north pole to the south pole.

1. Tells you what the subject is of a map.
3. _____ work is done when the geographer goes to a site to learn about geography.
4. A set of data grouped together in one location in (or accessible by) a computer.
7. Shows the direction on a given map.
9. 0 degrees line of latitude.
12. Someone that makes maps.
14. Everything to the left of the Prime Meridian is in the ____ Hemisphere.
17. _____ images are pictures taken from space.
20. The precise or exact location of a place.