Vocabulary
An area with common features that set it apart form other places.
What are regions?
Shows the number of people living in certain areas.
What is a population map?
The earth is broken up into two ____________, the northern and southern.
What are hemispheres?
What makes a community?
People have fun together, they help each other, they care about their safety and follow rules.
The part of the map that shows directions is called a ____________.
compass rose
Where something needed can be found.
What is location?
Explains what the symbols on a map stand for
What is a map key?
What is relative location?
What do people do in a community?
They play sports, go shopping, work, go to the movies, live, work and play.
North, south, east and west
A resource that does not come from an animal or a plant.
What is a mineral?
a type of map that shows countries, state boundaries, borders, major cities and capitals.
What is a political map?
An invisible line that cuts the world in half
What is the equator?
A type of land resource is _________.
Soil, trees, bushes.
Intermediate directions
Northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast
Something found in nature that is useful to people.
What is a location?
You use this to measure the real distance between two places on a map.
What is a map scale?
when you give an exact location you are giving an _________ location.
What is absolute location?
A type of water resource is ________
Oceans, rivers, lakes.
a type of map that shows valleys, mountains, plains, deserts, bodies of water, and different height elevations.
What is a physical map?
There are __________ continents
What is 7?
What do people use land resources for?
Farming, building homes, schools and stores.