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Map Skills
Map Vocabulary
Geography
Transportation
People and Geography
100
This is the name of a map. It tells what the map is showing.
Map Title
100
The landforms, bodies of water, and climate of an area
What are physical features?
100
This type of map shows landforms and bodies of water in an area.
What is a physical map?
100
a way of getting from one place to another
What is transportation?
100
True or False? People have an affect on geography.
True
200
This explains symbols on a map
What is the map key or legend?
200
This is the general location of an object
What is the relative location?
200
This type of map shows boundaries of countries, states, or cities.
What is a political map?
200
the air, water, land, and other things that surround animals, people, and plants
What is the environment?
300
This shows the distance between two places on a map.
What is the scale?
300
This is the exact location of an object.
What is the absolute location?
300
a material found in nature that people use
What is a natural resource?
300
sharing information
What is communication?
400
These are north, south, east, and west.
What are the cardinal directions?
400
This is a design on a map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
500
This is a grid of letters and numbers used to locate items on a map
What is an alphanumeric grid?
500
a well-known object or structure
What is a landmark?
500
groups of people that share a way of life
What are cultural groups?