| A | B |
|---|
| Map projection shows which true direction | Mercator |
| Robinson Projection is most distorted | poles |
| true of ALL map projections | distortion |
| Meridians | longitude lines |
| Parallels | latitude lines |
| 0 degrees longitude | Prime Meridian |
| part of a map used to understand map symbols | legend or key |
| used to find directions | compass rose |
| tells what the map is about | legend |
| shows man-made features on earth | political map |
| shows things like rivers, mountains, relief and elevation | physical map |
| map shows the average number of people living in a certain area | population density map |
| vertical or horizontal lines along the sides or bottom of a graph | axis |
| graph comparing the parts of something to its whole | pie graph or circle graph |
| most accurate model of the earth | globe |
| method of drawing the earth on a flat surface | map projection |
| shortest distance between two places on the earth | great circle route |
| bar graph that uses little symbols to represent quantities | a pictograph |
| exact location of a place on the earth's surface | absolute location |
