click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
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 |