1 / 6

Oceans, Continents, and Maps

Oceans, Continents, and Maps. October 31, 2013 By: Kiara Mohamed. Map Types. Political Map - state and national boundaries; also includes the locations of cities. Physical Map – shows mountains, rivers, and lakes ; also shows different colors to show elevation.

leyna
Download Presentation

Oceans, Continents, and Maps

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Oceans, Continents, and Maps October 31, 2013 By: Kiara Mohamed

  2. Map Types • Political Map - state and national boundaries; also includes the locations of cities. • Physical Map – shows mountains, rivers, and lakes ; also shows different colors to show elevation. • Topographic Map – has contour lines instead of colors to show landscape.

  3. Map Types • Climate Map – shows weather of an area and climate zones • Economic or Resource-specific type of natural resources in an area • Road Map- shows major and miner highways and roads • Thematic Map- focuses on a special topic or special theme

  4. Latitude and longitude • Latitude – lines that run East to West • Longitude – lines that run North to South

  5. scale • SCALE - The distance from one point to another point

  6. Oceans and continents • * The Pacific Ocean - North America • *The Atlantic Ocean - South America • *The Indian Ocean - Antarctica • *The Arctic Ocean - Europe • - Africa • - Asia • - Australia

More Related