Features of a Map

What are the five features of a map?

• Title, Key/Legend, Map, Grid, Compass Rose

• Title, Key/Legend, Scale, Grid, Compass Rose

• America, Title, Key/Legend, Map, Compass Rose

• North America, Key/Legend, Map, Grid, Compass Rose

What is the title?

• It is the name of a continent

• It shows distance on the map

• It is the name of the map

• It is the kilometers on a map

We have 8 ordinal directions in the compass rose

• True

• False

What does scale show on a map?

• Directions

• Distance

• Symbols

• Lines

Key/Legend helps identify...

• Symbols

• Graphics

• Pictues

• Places

Grid identifies only horizontal lines on a map

• True

• False

What are the four ordinal directions?

• North, South, Northwest, Southwest

• Northweast, Southwest, Eastwest, North

• North, South, East, West

• Northweast, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast

What are the four cardinal directions?

• North, South, East, Southwest

• North, South, East, West

• Northweast, Southwest, Eastwest, North

• Northweast, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast

On your printed map, find the continent with the following location: 10o N - 20o E

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

• Europe

On your printed map, find the continent with the following location: 80o N - 30o S

• Africa

• Australia

• North America

• South America