Types of Maps
This type of map shows whether a place is usually warm or cold and wet or dry
What is a climate map?
This is also known as an exact location. It is helpful when you're trying to find an unfamiliar place.
This is the school you attend
What is RCSA Southeast?
This shows the distance on a map
What is a scale?
This is a map that identifies community cultures and resources.
What is a cultural map?
This tells where a place is relative to, or compared to, something else
What is relative location?
This is the county where our school is located
What is Duval?
This is a symbol that shows the cardinal directions
This refers to maps that were drawn or printed in the past and are used to show geographical ideas of the times and places in which they were produced
What are historical maps?
This is an imaginary horizontal line that runs around the middle of the world
What is the equator?
This is the city where our school is located
These are numbers or letters, or both, along the margins of a map that help you find a place's location on a map
What are coordinates?
This is a map that shows the natural features of an area
What is a physical map?
This is a division on Earth between north and south or east and west
What is a hemisphere?
This is the state where our school is located
What is Florida?
This explains what the symbols and colors on a map represent
What is a legend or a key?
This is a map that shows the border of regions, countries, states, and cities
What is a political map?
This is one of the ways that the world is divided, based on what time it is in a given location
What is time zones?
This is the country where our school is located
These are drawings of places around the world that show where places are located and how to get there
What are maps?