Map Skills

A picture that is used to represent an object on a map.

• compass rose

• key

• legend

• symbol

This map shows natural landforms such as rivers and mountains.

• Physical Map

• Political Map

• Climatic Map

• Resource Map

An imaginary line that runs horizontally through the center of the Earth.

• Prime Meridian

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Equator

A small chart included on a map that gives descriptions of what symbols are used and what they represent.

• symbol

• title

• key

• compass rose

In places near the equator the ______________ rays are almost directly over head thus keeping the temperature high.

Prime Meridian is an imaginary line that runs through the center of the earth _____________________ dividing the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.

A map's __________ gives us our first clue about its content.

A scale represents the ______________ between two locations on the map.

The compass rose is a design on a map that shows _____________________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four major cardinal directions.

• north

• south

• west

• southeast