Types of Maps
This map shows how many people live in an area.
What is a population map?
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
The United State is in this continent
What is the North America?
This shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
This map shows the weather trends in a particular area over time.
What is a climate map?
Directions that lines of latitude run
What are west to east?
These lines show the limits of the territory within a certain area; in football a player might be out of them.
What are boundaries?
The Earth can be divided into this many hemispheres
What is 4
this item on the map tells you what all of the symbols mean
What is the map key/legend?
This kind of map shows the Earth's landforms and bodies of water.
What is a physical map?
The main line of latitude is known by this name.
What is the Equator?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
The country that is to the United States north
What is Canada?
The exact spot on earth is known as the ______________ location
What is absolute
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
Longitude lines run in these two directions?
What are north and south?
The key to understanding maps is to use this.
What is the legend?
The country to the United State south
What is Mexico?
Ohio's relative location is ________________ of West Virginia
What is northwest?
This type of map shows many things that are grown in the area or industries they may have
What is a agricultural/industry map?
The main line of longitude is known as this.
What is Prime Meridian?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
The oceans on the east coast and west coast of the United States
What is the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean
This is used to determine distance on a map
What is a map scale?