Types of Maps
Latitude & Longitude
Map Skills
Map Characteristics
Name that part
100
This map shows the number of people in a given area.
What is a population map?
100
The prime meridian is a line of _____? Latitude or longitude
What is longitude?
100
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
100
This is the color that you will see to indicate land on a physical map.
What is green?
100
This shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
200
This map shows features such as mountains and rivers.
What is a physical map?
200
Lines of latitude run from which directions? West to East OR North to South
What are west to east?
200
On a political map, these lines show the limits of territory within a certain area such as a state or country. You can only see them on map.
What are boundaries/borders?
200
This is another word for precipitation.
What is rainfall?
200
These are called _____ directions: Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
300
This kind of map shows the amount an area receives, usually with a year.
What is a precipitation map?
300
The main line of latitude is known by this name.
What is the Equator?
300
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
300
Give two examples of goods you may see on a natural resource map.
What coal, iron, lumber, coffee, natural gas, corn, etc...?
300
This part tells us what the map is going to be about.
What is the title?
400
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
400
Longitude lines run in which two directions? North and South OR East and West
What are north and south?
400
The key to understanding maps is to use this.
What is the legend?
400
A natural resource map shows where good are produced, which is ways of making ________.
What is money?
400
Name two characteristics of a physical map.
What are landforms, mountains, rivers, bodies of water, color to show elevation?
500
This type of map shows the types of goods that can be found in an area, such as coal or iron.
What is a product map?
500
The main line of longitude is known as this.
What is Prime Meridian?
500
What do you call a person who reads maps?
What is a geographer?
500
The numbers on a precipitation or population map do not show just one exact amount, instead they are given in _____,
What is a range?
500
This is what you see beside the name of a city to show that it is the capital of a state or country.
What is a star?
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