The skills and methods people use to make maps.

T-F Ptolemy was an Ancient Greek geographer who wrote about making maps more accurate.

The Prime Meridian is also known as the ________ meridian.

A way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable.

T-F A mercator projection is often used in textbooks.

__________ maps also often show capitals, major cities, and important landforms.

Either of two equal halves of earth, as marked by the equator or the prime meridian.

lT-F Thematic maps show features on earth's surface that humans created.

In the early 1400s, the chinese explorer_____________ made detailed maps that helped China expand its trading network

Imaginary lines that runs parallel to the equator.

T-F A GIS stores information about the world in a computer.

The GPS can tell a person his/her exact ______ on earth

Imaginary lines that go around earth through the north and south poles.

T-F Technology has improved weather maps.

Muslim ________ in the 1800s translated the works of Ptolemy into Arabic.