Political - Indicate state and national boundaries and capital and major cities. A capital city is usually marked with a star within a circle. An example: A map of the United States., Physical - Illustrated the landscape features of an area, such as the mountains, rivers and lakes. The water is usually shown in blue. Colors are used to show relief - differences in land elevations , Topographic - Uses lines to show the shape and elevation of an area. Lines that are close together indicate steep terrain, and lines that are far apart indicate flat terrain. Also called a contour map. , Thematic - Designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps can show a variety of aspects of a region. An example: Population Map of Africa  , Equator - An imaginary line on the earth's surface running horizontally at 0 degrees latitude. It divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres. , Longitude & Latitude - Measure angular distance on the earth's surface and expressed in either degrees or by some corresponding difference in time. Latitude is often called "parallel because it runs parallel to the equator. Longitude measurements are called meridians.  , oceans - Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic, map projections - ways of showing curved surfaces on flat map, compass rose - showing principal directions on the map, hemisphere - half of the earth we live in northern hemishphere, Prime meridian - merger between east and west longitude, map vs globe - places and directions / longitude and latitude, continent - America /South America/Africa,

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