types of maps
This type of map uses color, national or state boundaries and cities.
What is a political map?
This map feature shows the cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
What are lines of longitude?
This is the person who makes a map.
What is a cartographer?
Two continents that are totally in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Australia or Antarctica?
This type of map shows landforms and elevation.
What is a physical map?
A star next to a major city stands for this.
What is a capital city?
Imaginary parallel lines the run E to W around the earth and measure distance N and S of the equator.
What is latitude?
This is the metric scale that's used to measure temperature.
What is Celsius?
This map shows climate conditions throughout the world.
What is a climate map?
This tells how much smaller the map is than the real area it represents.
What is a map scale?
The imaginary line, or parallel of latitude, that circles the Earth at it's largest circumference.
What is the Equator?
This map shows places in the world have many and which have few people.
What is a population density map?
This feature on a map decodes and explains the symbols on the map.
What is a map key or legend?
The meridian, 0 degrees longitude that runs through the N and S poles, through Grenwich, and England.
What is the prime meridian?
This map divides the world into 24 standard time zones.
What is a world time zone map?
Solid lines that seperate states and countries represent what?
What are boundaries?
Contour lines on a map show this.
What is elevation?