Types of Maps
This map shows areas where large groups of people live.
What is a population density map?
The line that separates calendar days on the globe.
What is the International Dateline?
These are things that stand for other things on a map, such as an airplane standing for an airport.
What are symbols?
This shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
This map shows locations of events that happened in the past.
What is a Historical map?
These lines show where one country or state ends and another begins.
What are boundaries?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
This kind of map shows how high or how low the land in a certain area is.
What is an elevation map?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
The name of this ocean is found at the very top of the earth.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This continent is located at the bottom of the earth and is uninhabited.
What is Antarctica?
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
The key to understanding maps is to use this.
What is the legend?
This ocean is the ocean that is located on the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic?
This continent is also a country.
What is Australia?
This type of map shows the characteristics of a place or area.
What is a physical map?
The main line of longitude is known as this.
What is Prime Meridian?
This is a smaller map on a large map that shows the region being shown.
What is a Locator Map?
California, Oregon, and Washington are all states located near this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This continent is the largest of all continents.
What is Asia?