Geography and Map Terms

What does a cartographer do?

• Make icecream

• Make Maps

• Make flashlights

• Write in cursive

What is a map?

• round model of the earth

• flat drawing of places around the world

What is a globe?

• a flat drawing of places around the world.

• round model of the Earth

Physical features are bodies of water or land forms that can be seen on a

What is located on a map tht tells what colors and symbols on a map mean?

• scale

• compass rose

• legend

What object on a map tells how far it is from one place to another?

• legend

• scale

• compass rose

What object on a map is a symbol that shows north, south, east and west?

• Legend

• scale

• compass rose

What type of map shows us where people live?

• population map

• political map

• physical map

• climate map

This type of map shows us the lines and borders that governments make.

• population map

• political map

• physical map

• climate map

This type of map shows the natural features of a place such as rivers and mountains.

• population map

• political map

• physical map

• climate map