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Map Skills
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Compass Rose | a circular direction marker on a map. |
| Cardinal Directions | main directions;North,South,West,East |
| Intermediate Directions | the in between directions; NW,NE,SW,SE |
| Map Key | part of a map that explains what the symbols on the map stand for |
| Map Scale | part of a map that compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world |
| Map Title | words on a map that tells a subject of a map |
| Inset Map | a smaller map inside a larger map |
| physical map | primary purpose is to show land forms like mountains, deserts and plains |
| political map | shows boundaries of countries and states ; locations of major cities and important bodies of water |
| historical map | a map that gives information about a place as it was in the past |
| grid system | an arrangement of lines that divides something into squares such as a map |