Vocabulary
This tells you what the map is about.
What is the map title
Shows physical features such as mountains, deserts, and plains.
What is the a physical map?
Strawberry
What is the State fruit?
Baker.
What is the city where I live?
High ground along a river that is built up from the soil from that river flooding
This tells you the directions o.n a map
What is a compass rose?
Shows major highways and interstates.
What is a road map?
Brown pelican
What is the state bird?
The United States of America.
What is the country that I live in?
Consists of soil deposited by the Mississippi River at its mouth
What is the Mississippi delta.
North, east, south, west
What are cardinal directions
Shows the resources that are found in different regions.
What is a resource map?
magnolia
North America
What is the continent that I live on?
Wet, treeless, flat areas covered with water and grasses that can be found along the coast
What is a marsh?
This shows what the symbols and colors on a map mean.
Map key
Shows the population density of an area.
What is a population density map?
The Cypress
What is the state tree?
East Baton Rouge
What is the Parish that I live in?
Constantly filled with water and covered by trees.
What is a swamp?
A large ocean basin that is surrounded by North America, Mexico, and Cuba
What is the Gulf of Mexico
Shows the amount of rainfall in a particular area.
what is a precipitation map?
fleur-de-lis
North and west
What are the hemispheres Louisiana is located in?
Slow moving waterway that ranges in size from short and shallow to long and navigable
What is a Bayou?