Maps vs. Globes
What is a map?
This type of map shows boundaries created by people.
What is a political map?
These are the colors found on a physical map.
What are green, blue, and brown?
The capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This county is home to Armour, SD.
A 2-D picture that can represent the whole world or a small part of it with more details.
What is a map?
Information like countries, _______, cities, towns, major highways, and bodies of water appear on a political map.
What is states?
This type of map shows physical or land features.
What is a physical map?
This mountain range in the United States runs from Canada to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Rapid City is part of this SD county.
What is Pennington County?
These are visual resources that we use to locate places, plan trips, and see natural and man-made features.
What are maps and globes?
A political map uses ______ to show the different states or countries.
What is colors?
This is an example of something you may find on a physical map.
What are mountains, deserts, and bodies of water?
These political features appear all over on a United States map for their large populations.
What are major cities?
The capital of South Dakota is located in this county.
What is Hughes County?
A 3-D picture that represents the whole world in a big picture.
What is a globe?
A major reason to use a political map.
A reason to use a physical map.
What is to avoid or see landforms?
California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona border this US state.
What is Nevada?
South Dakota is mostly made up of this physical feature.
What is the plains?
The name for a mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
The one major thing that political map shows.
The one major thing a physical map shows.
What are physical features?
This geographical area of the United Sates is made up of plains.
What are the Great Plains?
This physical feature is located in Armour.