1. JEOPARDY 100 200 100 200 300 400 500 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 GeneralMap HistoryNavigationExplorersMisc FINAL

2. General for 100 What are the 4 types of maps Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Political, Physical, Movement, and Distribution

3. General 200 What is the line that is located at 0º Longitude Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Prime Meridian

4. General 300 What are the imaginary lines used to measure distance North and South of the Equator Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Latitude

5. General 400 How did the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes prove the earth was round and not flat Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Shadow cast at two different location.

6. General 500 Name of the Line at 180º Longitude Push the Space Bar to check your answer. International Date Line

7. Map History 100 The first known maps were created by which ancient civilization Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Babylonians

8. Map History 200 What was the name of the Greek philosopher who created 8 volumes of work titled Geography Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Ptolemy

9. Map History 300 During the 1700’s a technique was created to measure the shape of the land, its peaks and valley’s and made maps far more accurate, what was it? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Surveying

10. Map History 400 The Greek philosopher who first calculated the earth to be approx 25k miles around at its center Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Eratosthenes

11. Map History 500 Magellan and his crew will forever be famous for being the first to do what Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Circumnavigate the globe, (even without Magellan finishing the trip)

12. Navigation 100 Ptolomy created this device to assist with navigation Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Astrolabe

13. Navigation 200 What was the problem with the Cross Staff Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Caused sailors to go blind lining up the angles

14. Navigation 300 What is a weakness with the compass for navigation Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Doesn’t display Latitude location

15. Navigation 400 What was Columbus looking for when he set sail to the West Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Westward water path to India/Far East

16. Navigation 500 What were the two types of maps that came out of the Dark Ages. Why Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Portolan Maps for travel on water (trading and ship improvements didn’t stop) as well as road maps, because “all roads lead to Jerusalem”

17. Early Mapping 100 What were the three Pieces of evidence used by Aristotle to show the earth was round Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Ships sinking in the horizon, earth’s shadow on the moon, viewable and un-viewable stars based on your location

18. Early Mapping 200 The earliest Egyptian Maps were from what date Push the Space Bar to check your answer. 1300 BCE

19. Early Mapping 300 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. 60ºN to 30ºS Ptolemy’s map, if placed on the actual world, would extend from what line of latitude north to what line of latitude south

20. Early Mapping 400 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Shaped like a “T inside an O”, with Europe and Africa on one side and Asia on the other During the Middle Ages maps were called T-O maps, why was that?

21. Early Mapping 500 In the Middle ages, what was used to display wind Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Gods/Fairies/etc

22. Misc 100 What were some of the advancements Ptolemy contributed toward the art of map making Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Scale, Grid Lines, Key/Legend, Designation (top always being North)

23. Misc 200 Type of map that is used by navigators while sailing on the sea Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Portolan Maps

24. Misc 300 Why did most maps in the middle ages place Jerusalem in the center and East at the top Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Jerusalem was center of religious belief, and the belief that paradise was thought to lie eastward, east was located at the top of the map in the direction of heaven

25. Misc 400 Produced maps that displayed everything between 60°N and 60°S accurately, and was used by most navigators for water travel but outside of those lines was distorted Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Mercator

26. Misc 500 Estimated the earth to be round, and was almost exact as to its size (he was greek) Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Eratosthenes

27. FINAL JEOPARDY Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Projections Vocabulary The name associated with Ptolemy’s various ways to look at a map of the world