Map Skills

 A __________ is used to identify the direction of north, south, east, and west.

• Compass Rose
• Map Scale
• Latitude Lines
• Longitude Lines

This type of map shows physical features of the land, including valleys, canyons, plains, and mountains.

• Political
• Physical
• Time Zones
• Map Key

A _________ is used to represent real objects on the map such as a building, road, lake, tree, mountain, etc.

• Symbol
• Compass Rose
• Map Scale
• Merdian

The __________ directions are north, east, south, and west.

• cardinal
• intermediate
• map
• most imprtant

__________ directions are northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest.

• Latitude
• Cardinal
• Intermediate
• Longitudinal

 This type of map shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, and/or counties.  It sometimes includes cities, roads, and significant bodies of water.

• Physical
• Political
• Product
• Map

 A __________ is used to identify what the symbols on the map stand for.  The meaning of the symbol may be explained using this.

• Physical Map
• Map Key
• Compass Rose
• Map

The red question mark is located to the _________ of the compass rose.

• North 
• South
• East
• West

 The red question mark is located to the _________ of the compass rose.

• Southwest
• Southeast
• South
• West

This element gives measurements  and shows distance between objects on the map

• Legend
• Key
• Title
• Scale