Map Features 1
This map feature you would use to show the directions North, East, South, and West.
What is a compass rose?
This is a tool to show how to get from one place to another, a drawing of a real place, and a picture that shows distance between places.
What is a map?
If a map's scale shows that 1 inch on the map equals 1 mile in real life, how many inches on the map would stand for two miles?
What is 2 inches?
This is the number of time zones there are.
What are 24 time zones?
This kind of map shows natural features of the land?
What is a Physical Map?
This map feature shows the distance on the map in relationship to the distance in real life, and looks like a ruler.
What is map scale?
If you were planning to travel by highway from one city to another, what would you need to know to estimate how long the drive will take?
What is the distance between the cities and how fast you plan to drive?
If you were at 40°N latitude in January (New York State Area), what clothes would you be wearing?
What is a coat, hat, and gloves because it would be winter time in New York?
This is the amount of minutes there are in 1 degree?
What are 60 minutes?
This is another word for height of a place.
What is elevation?
You use this to show the symbols on a map to help you read it.
What is a map key/legend?
This imaginary line runs around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the equator?
If you and a friend both traveled north on different lines of longitude from the South Pole, would you ever meet?
What is yes, at the North Pole?
The N stand for this in 41°38' N.
What is north?
To show elevation on most physical maps, we would use these.
What are lines and colors?
On a map, these lines runs from east to west and are always equal distance apart, never crossing or intersecting.
What are latitude lines aka parallel lines?
Where would 10 degrees south be in relationship to the equator?
What is south of the equator?
These are where lines of latitude and lines of longitude cross.
What are coordinates?
How would you set your clocks if you moved from the central time zone to the eastern time zone?
What is ahead one hour?
We would see these on a physical map.
What are mountains and valleys?
These lines run north and south, and they always intersect and cross one another at the north pole and the south pole.
What are longitude lines aka meridian lines?
The small circle symbol that floats next to a number is called this.
What is a degree?
This is the name of the imaginary line on a map that marks where each new day begins?
What is the International Date Line?
These travel plans might cause you to think of the international date line?
What is from the United States to Asia?
We would use an elevation map when doing this.
What is to check routes through mountains?
If you were planning a trip, you might use two different road maps because of this.
What is maps of different scale provide different information about places?
This happens to the temperature as you move from a lower number of degrees of latitude to a higher number of degrees of latitude.
What is the temperature gets lower as it gets colder?
Map coordinates help you to do this.
What is to help you pinpoint a location on the map?
The ' stand for this in 41°38' N.
What is minutes?
This is electronic equipment that uses radio waves from satellites to give precise information about location and direction.
What is GPS or Global Positioning System?