Types of Maps
This map shows elevation within a specific area.
What is a topographic map?
Lines of longitude and latitude are used to find what type of location?
What is absolute location?
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
What continent is south of North America?
What is South America?
This map shows what the earth physically looks likes.
What is a physical map?
Directions that lines of latitude run
What are west to east? Left and Right?
This unit is used to measure longitude and latitude lines.
What are Degrees?
What continent is the furthest south?
What is Antarctica?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
This kind of map shows that groups of people in certain parts of Virginia speak Spanish, while groups in another part speak English.
What is a language map
0 Degrees latitude is known by this name.
What is the Equator?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
What continent is west of Asia?
What is Europe?
This continent contains the United States of America.
What is North America?
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
Longitude lines run in these two directions?
What are north and south? or Up and Down
What continent is Southeast of Africa?
What is Australia?
Name two of the five oceans on our planet.
What are Atlantic, Pacific Indian, Arctic, and Southern?
This type of map displays various meteorological features across a particular area at a particular point.
Hint: You see this type of map on the news
What is a weather map?
0 Degrees longitude is known as this.
What is Prime Meridian?
The letter and number for a location are called what?
What are coordinates?
If you were to travel from Africa to North America, what direction would you be heading? Is that direction cardinal or intermediate?
What is Northwest and Intermediate?