All About Maps

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All About Maps

• Presented by V. Martinez

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Louisiana Testing Requirements

• Describe the characteristics and uses of various
  types of maps, for example
• political
• physical
• elevation/topographic
• population, population density
• natural resource
• precipitation, climate
• Use a map key/legend, symbols, distance scale,
  and boundaries to interpret a map.
• Use a compass rose and cardinal or intermediate
  directions to interpret a map.
• Identify all U.S. states by shape and position
  on a map.

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What is a political map?

• Political maps are designed to
• - Show governmental boundaries of countries,
  states, and counties,
• Show the location of major cities,
• They usually include significant bodies of water.
  
• Bright colors are often used to help the user
  find the borders.

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Example of a political map.
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What is a physical map?

• country borders
• major cities
• significant bodies of water
• the location of landforms like deserts, mountains
  and plains.
• On the linked map in the next slide, note the
  Pyrenees Mountains, the mountains in central
  France and the Alps. These types of landforms are
  not included on political maps.

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Physical Map
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What is an elevation or topographic map?

• The shape of the earths surface is shown with
  contour lines.
• Contours are imaginary lines that join points of
  equal elevation on the surface of the land above
  or below a reference surface, such as mean sea
  level.
• Contours make it possible to measure the height
  of mountains, depths of the ocean bottom, and
  steepness of slopes.

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Louisiana topographic map. http//www.lib.utexas.e
du/maps/united_states/louisiana_mo_91.jpg
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Can you find Abney on this topographic map?

• http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/louisiana/slid
  ell_2005.pdf
• You will need to use the zoom tool to locate
  Abney in south Slidell.

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Louisiana Population Map-What do you notice?
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Another Louisiana Population Maphttp//doa.louisi
ana.gov/census/theme/90pop.gif
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What are natural resources?

• This site gives us some answers
• Natural Resources come from nature and are used
  to make things that we need.
• http//www.sfenvironment.com/aboutus/school/resour
  ces/natural.pdf
• They are materials or substances such as
  minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that
  occur in nature and can be used for economic
  gain. Oxford Press Dictionary
• Natural Resources Quiz http//dnr.louisiana.gov/e
  nviroquiz2.ssi
• LA Department of Natural Resources Kids Site
  http//dnr.louisiana.gov/teach.ssi

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Example of a natural resource map
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Natural Resource Map
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Another natural resource map

• http//www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/klamath/images/kb
  -landcover.jpg

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Louisanas natural resources

• Louisiana's chief agricultural resources are
  fertile soil, plenty of rainfall, and a long
  growing season. More than half the state is
  forested. The chief commercial trees are pine in
  the north-central area and southwest, oak in the
  northeast, ash in the east and south-central
  area, and cypress in the southern swamps.
  http//student.britannica.com/comptons/article-204
  067/Louisiana

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Climate Map of the World
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Shaded Relief Map of Louisiana
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Satellite Image Map of Louisiana
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• http//fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/1895/la_1895.jpg

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Map Legend

• A map legend is like a
• Key to the meaning of
• The map. It tells what
• All the symbols mean

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Compose Rose http//www.enchantedlearning.com/geo
graphy/printouts/compassrose.shtml
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Learn the locations of all the states and their
two letter abbreviations.

• http//county-map.digital-topo-maps.com/united-sta
  tes-map.gif

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Practice placing the states with Ben.

• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/flash/states_puzzle_lines
  2.html