Parts of a Map
This part of the map tells you exactly what you are looking at.
What is the title?
This region gets its name because of its shape, which resembles a part of a cowboy's footwear.
What is the Bootheel?
The nickname of the Missouri River.
What is the Big Muddy?
The highest temperature recorded in Missouri.
What is 118 degrees F.
These used to cover the Northern Tilled Plains hundreds of thousands of years ago.
What are glaciers?
This part of the map is usually off to the side and tells you what each symbol stands for.
What is the Key/Legend?
This region makes up the biggest part of the state.
What is the Ozark Plateau?
These are the mountains found in Missouri.
What are the St. Francois Mountains?
The lowest recorded temperature in Missouri.
What is -40 degrees F?
The official state fish of Missouri.
What is the Channel Catfish?
This part of the map looks like a big star and shows north, south, east, and west
What is the Compass Rose?
This region is well known for its rich farmland left behind by glaciers.
With over 1,450 of them found throughout the state, these geographic features are what Missouri is well known for.
What are caves?
The amount of Missouri that is covered by forests.
What is 1/3?
These two rocks make up most of the Ozark Plateau.
What are limestone and dolomite?
This part of the map tells you how a unit of measurement on the map relates to units of measurement in real life.
What is the scale?
Before settlers arrived, this region was covered in water that surrounded the dense, swampy forests.
What is the Bootheel?
These two mighty rivers join forces in Missouri.
What are the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers?
The amount of precipitation per year in the southeast part of Missouri.
What is 50 inches per year?
This is what the work "Alluvial" refers to.
What are the sand, silt, minerals, and nutrients the floodwaters of the Mississippi River leave behind each year.
This part of the map is a series of imaginary horizontal and vertical lines drawn onto the map. They may represent actual latitudes and longitudes or they may just split the map into smaller parts.
What is the grid?
This region has the shape of dome or an upside-down bowl.
What is the Ozark Plateau?
This is the tallest point in Missouri.
What is Taum Sauk Mountain?
This is the height above sea level of the tallest point in Missouri.
What is 1,772 feet above sea level?
These two tree families make up the majority of Missouri’s trees.
What are the oak and hickory tree families?