How to Make a Map| Geography

What do people use maps for?

• To drive from one side of a country to another.

• To see the street and/or building locations.

• To find their way around a new city, country, or a continent.

• all of the above

What is the purpose of a map?

• To identify the meaning of symbols on the map.

• A drawing of a place.

• To figure out the distance from one place to another

• To figure out the distance from one place to another and a map is a drawing of a place.

Which map element tells us the cardinal and intermediate directions?

• scale

• title

• compass rose

• legend

Items such as small shapes or drawings on a map used to represent real objects are called ____________________.

• latitude

• symbols

• longitude

• parallels

Our Earth can be divided in half, either north and south or west and east. These halves are called ______________________.

• pie

• chunks

• hemisphere

• grids

The center line of longitude, measured at 0 degrees is the _________________.

• Prime Meridian

• North Pole

• South Equator

• Equator

The center line of latitude, measured at 0 degrees is the ________________.

• Legend

• Longitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

What is on a map?

• has streets and buildings .

• states, countries, continents, and rivers.

• oceans and lands.

• The weather in different places.

• all of the above

What kinds of structures are on a map?

• has streets and buildings .

• states, countries, continents, and rivers.

• oceans and lands.

• The weather in different places.

• all of the above

What does a map of a city or town have on it?

• has streets and buildings .

• states, cities, lakes, and rivers.

• oceans and lands.

• The weather in different places.

• all of the above