Map & Map Tools Vocabulary

Drawing of places around the world that shows where places are located how to get there.

• Globe

• Key

• Map

a symbol that shows the cardinal directions

• Legend

• Scale

• Compass Rose

North, South, East, and West

• Compass

• Cardinal Directions

• Coordinates

A map scale:

• Shows the distance on a map

• measures weight of a land mass

• shows the cardinal directions

a person who creates maps and decides what to include on them

• Biographer

• Mapographer

• Cartographer

ABSOLUTE LOCATION

• describes the location of a place relative to, or compared to, something else.

• a place’s exact location on a map

• a model of the world

describes the location of a place relative to, or compared to, something else.

• RELATIVE LOCATION

• ABSOLUTE LOCATION

• DIRECTIONS

explains what the symbols and colors on a map represent

• SCALE

• KEY

• TITLE

numbers, letters, or both along the margins of a map that help you find a place’s location.

• COORDINATES

• SCALE

• GLOBE

a map that shows whether a place is usually warm or cold and wet or dry

• CLIMATE MAP

• PHYSICAL MAP

• POPULATION MAP