Unit 1: Map Skills

How are regions created?

This map shows the land features of an area such as mountains, rivers, and lakes.

This map shows the borders of states and countries.

Latitude runs east to west.

This map shows the cities, highways, roads, bridges, railroad tracks, airports, and other landarks in an area.

This word means: The four true or main directions on the compass: north, south, east and west

Regions can't change over time

This shows how the distance between points on a map compares to the actual distance in real life.

This is the part of the map that lists all of the symbols used on the map and what each symbol represents.

Longitude runs east to west.

True or False: The 5 criteria for regions are landforms, culture, population, climate, and economics.

What type of map uses shading to show the elevation, or heights, of land above sea level.

Which of the following is NOT criteria used to classify a region:

This map shows the goods produced or natural resources found in a certain area. Such as crops, lumber or coal.