MAPS
What types are there?
Natural Resource Maps
Include:
• Key of symbols representing resources of a given area
• Symbols that represent a given natural resource i.e. a fish
for the fishing industry, oil derrick for oil, etc.
Highway Maps
Include:
• Interstate highways
• State highways
• Rural roads
• Toll roads
Climate Maps
Include:
• Climatic zones
based on the
typical
temperature of a
given area
• Zones sometimes
based on the
biome it belongs
to i.e. tundra,
desert,
temperate, etc.
Geological Maps
Include:
• Showing the distribution of geologic
features including different kinds of
rocks and faults
• Represented by colors that represent
different geologic units (a volume of a
certain kind of rock of a given age
range)
• Age of rock is described in map key by
Epochs, subdivisions of the time Periods
such as Jurassic or Cenozoic)
Political Maps
Include:
• Borders
• Country name
• Capitals
• Major cities
Map of the World…Where is Europe?
6
1
2
5
3
4
• Europe is #6 on the map. Remember Italy “the boot” or the fact the
the U.S. is directly across “the pond” from Europe.
Political Cartoons
• a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor <a political
cartoon>
• Satire- a way of using humor to show that someone or
something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. : humor that shows the
weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society,
etc.
• Caricature- a drawing that makes someone look funny or
foolish because some part of the person's appearance is
exaggerated
• : someone or something that is very exaggerated in a funny or
foolish way
Political Cartoons
What is the cartoonist’s message for the
following political cartoons?
Political Cartoons
Question #3 and #4 on your review.
3. Earthquakes happen more often in California
than in Massachusetts. Why?
4. What form of government is it where the
executive branch exists separately from a
legislature to which it is generally not
accountable?
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
• Every location on earth has a global address.
• The address is in numbers; therefore, people can communicate about location no
matter what language they speak.
• Global address is given as two numbers called “coordinates”
• The two numbers are a location’s latitude number and longitude number.
• Latitude and Longitude works with a numbered grid system (like graph paper)
however latitude lines and longitude lines curve with the shape of the earth.
• Location is where the two lines intersect.
Latitude
• Lines of Latitude are horizontal. They are known as “parallels” because they run
parallel to the equator.
• Lines of latitude are a numerical way to measure how far north or south of the
equator a place is located.
• Latitude degrees get larger the further you get from the equator all they way to
90 degrees latitude at the poles.
• Equator is the starting point so it is marked 0 degrees.
• Latitude locations are given as ______ degrees north or ______ degrees south.
Longitude
• Lines of longitude are vertical and are known as “meridians”.
• Longitude is a numerical way to show/measure how far a location is east or west
of the Prime Meridian.
• The Prime Meridian is the starting point so it is labeled at 0 degrees
• To measure east or west of the Prime Meridian, there are 180 vertical lines of
longitude that run east and 180 lines of longitude that run west.
• The 180 degree line is called the International Date Line and is directly opposite
of the Prime Meridian.
• Longitude locations are given as _____ degrees east or ______ degrees west
Answers to previous slide
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Phoenix, Arizona
Raleigh, North Carolina
Fargo, North Dakota
Portland, Oregon
Houston, Texas
Niagra Falls, New York
Miami, Florida
Between which degrees of latitude and which degrees of longitude are most cities of Russia located?
• Answer to previous slide… Between 40 degrees and 60 degrees
latitude and 30 degrees and 60 degrees longitude