Types of Maps
This type of map shows borders of countries, states, regions, and cities.
What are Political Maps?
The equator is the primary line of this...
What is latitude?
These are drawings of places around the world that show where something is located and how to get there.
What are maps?
The symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west.
What is the compass rose?
This type of map shows where people live and how many live there.
What is a population map?
This is the name of the primary line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is a person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer?
This explains what the symbols and colors on a map represent.
What is the map key/legend?
Climate Maps show these things...
What are whether a place is warm or cold and dry or wet?
Lines of longitude go in this direction.
What is north to south (up and down)?
this is a round model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
What is the equator?
Cultural maps show this...
What are community cultures and resources?
Lines of latitude and longitude divide the Earth into these.
What are hemispheres?
These are the hemispheres the equator divides the Earth into.
What are the northern and southern hemispheres?
This imaginary vertical line is used to divide the Earth into the eastern and western hemipshere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Physical maps show these things...
What are mountains, rivers, deserts, valleys, lakes, and streams?
Lines of latitude tell you this.
What is how far north or south something is from the equator?
What are the eastern and western hemispheres?
This helps you describe the absolute location on a map using coordinates.
What is an alphanumeric grid?