Map Types
5 Map Elements
Colors on a USGS Map
Who uses maps
Types of symbols on AR highway map
100

Each city refers to one of these when a building permit is requested. 

What is a planning map?

100

The focus of the map. 

What is the Main Body

100

Color used to indicate State lines or civic Boundaries.

What is Black?

100

A person who moves goods overland across a great distance. 

What is a truck driver?

100

Interstate with even number.

What are interstates running East and West? 

200

Before you go water skiing you need to refer to this.

What is a Navigational chart?
200

Where to reference meaning of symbols on the map. 

What is the Legend?
200

Color used to indicate open water, marsh, drainage.

What is blue?

200

The family planner will refer to a map before leaving on a trip to the beech.   

What is a vacationer?

200
Symbol with a red tent inside a red circle? 

What is a national forest campsite?

300

Before moving to a new area its a good idea to look at one of these. 

What is a General Reference Map?

300

The map has one of these so you know where in the world you are looking at. 

What is a Title?

300
Color used to indicate woodland, orchard, vineyard or scrub.

What is Green?

300

Before leaving port this person will check navigational charts.

What is a Sailor?

300
Blue square with a white H in the center.

What is the symbol for Hospital?

400

During a land dispute, the county judge will refer to this.

What is a Cadastral map?

400
This describes the distance between two points.

What is the Scale?

400
Color used to indicate roads and landlines? 

What is Red?

400
During a tropical storm this person overlays radar results over a local map for TV viewers. 

What is a Meteorologist?

400

Small numbers along roads, between junctions.

What is the symbol for mileage between highways?

500

Lewis and Clark would like to have had one of these before embarking on their expedition. 

What is a Topographical map?

500

A smaller but more detailed view of a specific place located on the larger map, often of a city.

What is an Inset map.

500

Color is used to indicate contour lines, sand, landfills, and mining. 

What is Brown?

500

Cadastral maps are consulted when exploring where to build new neighborhoods. 

What is a land developer? 

500
Black solid line with black even dash marks drawn vertically across the line.
What is the symbol for railroad?