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Map skills
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Compass rose | a circular direction maker on a map |
| Cardical Directions | main directions;north ,south , east ,west |
| Intermediate Directions | the "in between directions" NW SW NE SE |
| Map Key | a part of a map that explains what the map symbol stands for |
| Map Scale | a part of a map that compares the distance on the map to a distance in the real world |
| Map Title | words on a map that tells the subject of a map |
| Inset Map | a smaller map set onside a larger map |
| Physical Map | a primary purpuse is to show landforms like mountains deserts and plains |
| Political Map | shows boundries of countries and states;locations of major cities and important bodies of water |
| Historical Map | a map that gives information about something that happened in the past |
| Grid System | an arrangement of lines that divides something into squares such as a map |