Types of Maps
Provides travel route directions.
What is a road map?
0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
Name one of the 3 states that has a portion across water.
What is Michigan, Virginia, and New York?
Designed to show natural landscape features of Earth.
What is a physical map?
180 degrees longitude.
What is the international date line?
The biggest state land wise on the southern border.
What is Texas?
Most widely used reference map.
What is political map?
Runs east and west, measures north and south.
What is a latitude?
The smallest state.
What is Rhode Island?
Shows variation of a topic across geographic area.
What is a thematic map?
23.5 degrees north or south.
What is the tropics?
State east of Colorado.
What is Kansas?
Generally uses contour lines to show elevation.
What is a topographical map.
Marks where the sun doesn't rise on winter solstice or set on the summer solstice.
What are the circles?
Most popular state.