Types of Maps
This shows cities, capitals, states and borders
What is a political map?
North, south, east, and west, are these.
What are cardinal directions?
This tells what is being shown on the map.
What is the map title?
This is the continent we live on.
What is North America?
This ocean is part of the NY coast?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
You would look at this to see what Schoharie looked like 100 years ago.
What is a historical map?
On a map, cardinal directions are shown with this symbol.
What is a compass rose?
This tells what symbols on a map mean.
What is the map key?
There are this many continents.
What is seven?
If you went to the beach in California, you would see this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This tells you the differences in elevation in an area (or hills, mountains, plains)
What is a landform map?
Northeast is an example of this.
What is an intermediate direction?
This shows the cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
This is the smallest continent.
What is Australia?
These are the oceans.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern?
When on vacation in a new area, you would use this to see the cities and towns in the area.
What is a political map?
On a compass rose, this direction is directly below north.
What is south?
You can tell the actual distance between areas on a map using this.
What is map scale?
This is the largest continent.
What is Asia?
(not about oceans…)
The Earth can be broken into how many hemispheres?
What are 4 (northern, southern, eastern, and western)?
Mountain ranges, plains, and bodies of water are shown on this.
What is a landform map?
The four cardinal directions are these.
What are North, East, South, West?
You would use this to find out what a star on a map means.
What is a map key?
These are the 7 continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
(not about oceans…)
The line of latitude that runs East to West at 0 degrees.
What is the equator?