Map Match
This map shows countries, borders, cities, and capitals. Name the map type.
What is a Political Map?
Which map element tells you what the map is about?
What is a Title?
Name the four cardinal directions.
What is North, South, East, and West?
Which map would show the boundary between Dededo and Yigo?
What is a Political Map?
What is the latitude of the Equator?
What is 0 degrees latitude?
This map shows mountains, rivers, oceans, and other natural features. Name it.
Which map element explains symbols and colors?
Which intermediate direction lies between north and east?
What is Northeast?
Which map would help track a typhoon approaching Guam today?
What is a Weather Map?
What is the longitude of the Prime Meridian?
A map helps hikers compare elevations and slopes. What map type is it?
What is a Topographic Map?
A star appears on a map. What should you check before deciding it represents a capital?
What is a Legend/ Map Key?
You face north. Which direction is on your right? Which is on your left?
What are East (right) and West (left)?
You want to study where residents are concentrated across Guam. Which map should you choose?
What is a Population Map?
Which measures north/south position: latitude or longitude? Which measures east/west position?
What is Latitude for N/S and Longitude for E/W?
A map shows average rainfall over many years. Is it a weather map or a climate map? Explain.
What is a Climate Map? Weather - for the day, Climate - collected patterns over time.
A scale says 1 cm = 5 km. Two towns are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they? How did you get it?
How far is 15km? 3x5
Face west, turn 90° right, then 180°. Which direction do you face?
What is South?
You want to locate Mt. Lam Lam, then study how steep a hiking route is. Name the best map type for EACH task.
What are Physical Maps to learn the resource and Topographic Maps to know the slopes and elevation.
A place is at 15°N, 145°E. Name its two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres?
Name BOTH map types: one shows where oil and minerals occur, and the other shows where people work in tourism or manufacturing.
What are resource and economic maps?
A population map has light and dark shading. What two things should you check before identifying the area with the highest density?
Check the title to confirm the subject, then the legend to match shading with density ranges. Do not assume darker always means more.
The library is west of the school. The park is north of the library. In which direction is the school from the park? Explain.
What is Southeast. The school is south and east of the park.
Two contour maps show the same elevation change. Map X has close contour lines. Map Y has widely spaced lines. Which route is gentler, and why?
What is Map Y? Widely spaced contour lines show the elevation changes over a longer horizontal distance, creating a gentler slope.
A student writes “145°N, 15°E” for a place intended to be 15° north and 145° east. Correct the pair and explain the error.
What is 15°N, 145°E. Write latitude first, then longitude. Latitude cannot be 145° because its range ends at 90° north or south.