Geography Studies Weekly: Week 1: Mapping Skills

What do we call the numbers or letters (or both) along the margins of a map?

• legends

• cartographers

• scales

• coordinates

A _____ is a person who creates a map.

• legend

• cartographer

• scale

• coordinate

The map's _____, or key, explains what the symbols and colors on the map represent.

• legend

• cartographer

• scale

• coordinates

You can tell the distance on a map by looking at the _____.

• legend

• cartographer

• scale

• coordinates

This map shows us where people live.

• physical map

• population map

• political map

• climate map

This map shows the dividing lines or borders governments make between cities, states, and countries.

• climate map

• political map

• population map

• physical map

This map shows whether a place is usually warm or cold and wet or dry.

• climate map

• political map

• population map

• physical map

This map shows the natural features of a place such as landforms, mountains, valleys, lakes, and streams.

• climate map

• political map

• population map

• physical map

True or False: A compass rose is a symbol that shows the directions up, down, left and right.

• True

• False