ESOL Map Vocabulary

In 1569, Gerardus Mercator created a famous map called the, “Mercator map projection.” People who create maps are called ____________________.

• cartographers

• navigators

• surveyors

• automatons

Look carefully at the map that Geraldus Mercator created.

What is wrong with it?

• The oceans are in the wrong place.

• Europe is bigger that South America.

• North America is missing.

This is an example of a ___________________ .

• navigational map

• political map

• resource or product map

• topographic map

This map is a _________________.

• topographical map.

• map projection

• political map

• navigational map

_____________________ are people who observe, measure and record what they see in a specific area.

• Global positioning System

• GOES

• Surveyors

• Landsat

GOES is a

• Geostationary Operation Environment Satellite

• what you do when a dog is chasing you.

• Geopgraphic Information System

• Global Positioning System

The GPS or Global Positiong System is important to us because:

• It is what we use for directions in our hand held devices like our cell phones.

• One day it will vacuum my floor.

• It can predict the weather.

• It projects maps onto a screen for a mapmaker to create a map.

This is an example of a ______________________.

• historical map

• topographical map

• navigational map

• political map

This is an example of a __________________

• historical map.

• political map.

• navigational map.

• product/resource map

This is an example of a

• historical map

• political map

• navigational map

• resource/product map