Must Know Map Skills Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Mental Map | Any visual image in our brain to help us get around in our environment
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| Political Map | It shows human made boundaries and features
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| Physical Map | It shows natural features like land and water forms
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| Direction | Point towards which something faces or a line along which it moves
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| Special Purpose Map | It shows one particular subject or topic on a map
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| Scale | It shows what distances on the map are equal to in reality on earth
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| Key/Legend | Part of a map that explains its symbols
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| Grid | Pattern of crisscrossing lines to help us locate places on a map
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| Compass Rose | It shows the directions on a map
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| Map Index | Part of a map that tells where places are on the map using grid coordinates
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| Atlas | Book of maps
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