Uno Map Skills
Explains the lines symbols and colors used on a map
Map Key or Legend
An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
Equator
One of the principal land masses of the earth, usually regarded as including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Continents
borders of areas like states, cities and countries.
What does a political map show?
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Map Scale
Map that show symbols within a key or legend
Point symbols map.
large bodies of salt water
Oceans
Different ways of representing a round Earth on a flat map
Maps Projections
A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) and intermediate (NE,SE,NW,SW) directions.
Compass Rose
What is are the 5 themes of Geography
Movement
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction Region
a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. on a flat surface
Maps
all maps are distorted as a result of projecting a 3-dimensional surface onto a 2-dimensional surface in area, distance, shape, and/or direction
Map Distortion
a set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator
the four main directions on a compass rose: north, south, east, and west
Cardinal Directions
Geography similarities
Geographic Patterns
three dimensional representation of the Earth, shows whole surface and is the best representation
Imaginary north-south lines that run vertically around the globe parallel to the Prime Meridian.
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
Intermediate Directions
shows information about land forms (mountain/ oceans)
What does a Physical Map Show?
Cartography