Parts of a Map

What is a map?

• A 2D way of showing the 3D earth

• a round circle

• The object used to show directions

• The imaginary lines that run through earth

What does a map title do?

• Explain what the symbols on the map means

• Shows the distance between two locations on a map

• Tell us what the map will be about

• Show the cardinal directions

What does a compass rose tell us?

• What the map is about

• How far away things are on the map from each other

• What the symbols on the map means

• The four cardinal directions (North, South, East, West)

What does a map key tell us?

• What the map is about

• the four main directions

• What the symbols, pictures, and colors on the map mean

• The distance between two locations on the map

What does the bar scale tell us?

• The distance between two locations on the map

• What the picture and symbols mean

• the four main directions

• what the map is about

True or False: Lines of Latitude are imaginary lines that measure the distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator

• True

• False

True or False: Lines of Longitude are imaginary lines that measure the distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator

• True

• False

Which is an important line of Longitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• North Pole

• South Pole

Which is an important line of Latitude?

• Prime Meridian

• South Pole

• North Pole

• Equator

What does a physical map show?

• Certain information about a place or region. Shows one type of information

• The features people have created, such as cities or country borders

• The landforms and bodies of water found in certain areas