JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY
FINAL
Themes Map History Navigation Explorers Misc
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Themes for 100

• What type of Region includes one central place
  and the surrounding areas affected by it

Functional Region
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Themes 200

• What is the line that is located at 0º Longitude

Prime Meridian
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Themes 300

• What are the imaginary lines used to measure
  distance North and South of the Equator

Latitude
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Themes 400

• Half of the Globe is called ..

Hemisphere
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Themes 500

• Name of the Line at 180º Longitude

International Date Line
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Map History 100

• The first known maps were created by which
  ancient civilization

Babylonians
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Map History 200

• What was the name of the Greek philosopher who
  created 8 volumes of work titled Geography

Ptolemy
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Map History 300

• During the Middle Ages, the center of maps was
  often occupied by what city?

Jerusalem
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Map History 400

• What role did science play during the Middle Ages

None, it was a time dominated by religious belief
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Map History 500

• Magellan and his crew will forever be famous for
  being the first to do what

Circumnavigate the globe, (even without Magellan
finishing the trip)
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Navigation 100

• Ptolomy created this device to assist with
  navigation

Astrolabe
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Navigation 200

• What was the problem with the Cross Staff

Caused sailors to go blind lining up the angles
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Navigation 300

• A compass will always face which direction?

Magnetic North
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Navigation 400

• What was Columbus looking for when he set sail to
  the West

Westward water path to India/Far East
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Navigation 500

• A device for navigation that can measure up to 60º

Sextant
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Early Mapping 100

• The oldest known map comes from the Babylonians
  at approx what date

2300 BCE
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Early Mapping 200

• The earliest Egyptian Maps were from what date

1300 BCE
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Early Mapping 300
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
Ptolomy
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Early Mapping 400
What were the two big mistakes Ptolomys
made While creating a map of the
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.
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Early Mapping 500

• In the Middle ages, what was used to display wind

Gods/Fairies/etc
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Misc 100

• Navigation device that worked well, but caused
  blindness to its users

Cross Staff
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Misc 200

• Type of map that is used by navigators while
  sailing on the sea

Portolan Maps
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Misc 300

• Both Stick maps and portolan maps display this
  information

Wind Patterns
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Misc 400

• Produced maps that displayed everything between
  60N and 60S accurately, but outside of those
  lines was distorted

Mercator
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Misc 500

• Estimated the earth to be round, and was almost
  exact as to its size (he was greek)

Eratosthenes
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FINAL JEOPARDY

• People

Name the 4 items Ptolomy contributed t the world
of mapping

• Scale
• Long/Lat
• Geography (the word)
• Projections

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