Map Basics
This basic map element informs the reader what the map is about.
What is a Title?
This grid system is used to find location anywhere on the surface of Earth.
What is latitude and longitude?
This map shows us the how people divide themselves.
What is a political map?
Flat or gentle rolling land.
What is a plain?
The seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica?
This basic map element is used to show direction.
What is a compass?
This measures how far East or West a location is.
What is Longitude?
This map shows the natural features of Earth.
What is a Physical Map?
What is a canyon?
This continent has the lowest population.
What is Antarctica?
This basic map element is used to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
0o Latitude
What is the Equator
This map shows a specific data set using color and and symbols.
What is a Thematic Map?
Sediment that builds up at the end of a river to create new land mass.
What is a delta?
The proper way to format coordinates.
oLatitude, oLongitude
This basic map element is used to show the reader how symbols and colors represent data.
What is a legend?
Another name for lines of Latitude.
What are Parallels?
A map showing all the states within the United States.
What is a political map?
A loose collection of islands.
This map projection is a rectangular shape and keeps latitude and longitude lines at right angles.
What is a Mercator Projection?
The slight inaccuracies on all flat maps since the globe can not be perfectly flattened.
What is distortion?
The portion of the planet from 23.5oN to 23.5oS.
What are the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn?
A map showing the minimum wage in each state.
What is a thematic map?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses.
What is and Isthmus?
A type of thematic map that uses distorted size to convey data.
What is a Cartogram?