Parts of Maps
These pictures on a map help to tell you where things are located. For example, restrooms.
What is a symbol?
This type of map helps you get around a city.
What is a street map?
This is the imaginary circle is halfway between the Nort and South Poles.
What is the equator?
You might use this color to show a forest on a map.
What is green?
This tool can help you figure out where you are when you are outdoors.
What is a compass?
This type of map can help you travel across the country.
What is a road map?
This is a line between countries.
What is a border?
You might use this color to show a desert on a map.
What is brown?
People use this drawing on a map to tell where north, south, east, and west are.
What is a compass rose?
Sailors use this kind of map.
What is a navigation chart?
You can use this feature of numbers and letters on a map to find a place.
What is a grid reference?
This person makes maps.
Who is a cartographer?
This list of symbols helps people read maps.
What is a legend/key?
This map can show what kinds of crops people grow or what jobs people have in an area.
What is an economic map?
These imaginary lines circle around the Earth.
What are latitude lines?
You can use this line to tell where high areas are on a map.
What is a contour line?
This tool shows us how far distances are on the map in relation to the real world.
What is a scale?
People can use this type of map to see elevation in an area.
What is a topographic map?
These imaginary lines run from top to bottom of earth.
What are longitude lines?
If you wanted to find out how many grizzly bears were left in an area, you could use this kind of map.