SS Week 6- Geographic Information

An item on a map that shows directions like north, south, east and west.

• Compass Rose

• Direction Rose

An item that is used to record information about land and help people find their way around.

• book

• map

• paper

• dictionary

Lines that run vertically and horizontally on a map or globe are known as lines of...

• Up and Down

• Longitude and Latitude

• Left and Right

Documents or records of an event or place made by someone who was there and experienced it firsthand.

• Firsthand Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

A type of map that shows the boundaries between countries, stats and provinces.

• Political

• Physical

• Climate

Used to show actual distances on a map.

• Ruler

• Scale

• Line

• compass rose

A type of map used to find patterns in weather

• Politcal

• Physical

• Climate

True or False: Elevation is how high something is?

• True

• False

A type of map that shows features of an area like landforms or major bodies of water.

• Political

• Physical

• Climate

Sometimes city planners, lawmakers and historians use this type of map to do their jobs.

• Political

• Physical

• Population