What Makes a Community?
A place where people live, work and have fun together
What is a community?
This shows us cardinal directions (north, east, south, west).
What is a compass rose?
The ________ refers to the total number of people who live in a place.
What is population?
Describe the relative location of the Portico.
(answers may vary)
What is next to the playground?
Museums are usually found in ___________.
What are urban communities?
These must be followed in order to make our communities safe places to live, work and play.
What are laws?
Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Northwest (NW) and Southwest (SW) are called what?
What are intermediate directions?
On a physical map, the ________ shows us which colors show higher and lower elevations.
What is a map key?
Imaginary lines that help you find the absolute location are called ___________ and ____________.
What are latitude and longitude?
Imagine you are walking to your next door neighbor's house. It takes you 20 minutes. This is an example of a ________ community.
What is rural?
Things found in nature that are useful to people
What are natural resources?
Sometimes maps look different from a place's real size and shape. This is called __________.
What is distortion?
Some maps have rows of squares, letters and numbers. These are called _______.
What are grid maps?
Saying that, "Miami-Dade County is south of Broward County" is an example of ___________.
What is relative location?
In urban communities, lots of people live in _________.
What are skyscrapers, apartments and row houses?
Groups of states that have common features are called ________.
What is a region?
Another word for legend, its explains what the symbols stand for.
What is a map key?
This kind of map shows us valleys, mountains, plains and deserts.
Lines of longitude and latitude can be used to describe the ________ location.
What is absolute?
People work together and depend on each other in what kind of community?
What are rural, suburban AND urban?
Imagine a field that has been turned into a parking lot. This is an example of what?
A ________ shows how to measure the real distance between two places on a map.
What is a map scale?
Major cities and capitals can be found on a ________ map.
What is political?
The equator divides Earth into two hemispheres. These are called the __________ hemisphere and _________. hemispheres
What are Northern and Southern?
________ communities have medium-sized populations.
What is suburban?