1. No warm-up today, clear everything off your desk with nothing but a pen/pencil.

2. Types of Maps

3. Two Main Types of Maps
Physical
Political

4. Physical Maps
Physical maps – show the natural features or landforms of an area. Ex. mountains, deserts, rivers, seas, oceans, and plateaus.

5. Another Physical Map

6. Political Maps
Political maps - show man-made features of the world. Ex. countries, cities, roads, airports, etc.

7. Another Political Map:

8. Natural Border
Natural Border – a border created by physical features like a river or mountains.

9. Political Border
Political Border – a man made border that does not necessarily have a natural separation.

10. Check for understanding
Using your worksheet determine what kind of maps or borders are being shown.
Types of Maps: Put either Ph (physical map) or Po(Political Map) based on what we’ve discussed

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16. Borders
Put either P for political border or N for natural border.

17. 1. Border between North/ South Korea

18. 2. Border between Northern and Southern Africa

19. 3. Border between the U.S. and Canada

20. 4. Great Wall of China

21. 5. Border between European and Asia

22. A quick note about longitude/latitude

23. Mapping Texas
Today you will be mapping a political and physical map of Texas using the additional map handout
You will need your colored pencils as well