1. Presented by V. Martinez
All About Maps
Presented by V. Martinez

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Example of a political map.

5. 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.

6. Physical Map

7. What is an elevation or topographic map?
The shape of the earth’s 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.

8. Louisiana topographic map. http://www. lib. utexas

9. Can you find Abney on this topographic map?
You will need to use the zoom tool to locate Abney in south Slidell.

10. Louisiana Population Map-What do you notice?

11. Another Louisiana Population Map http://doa. louisiana

12. What are natural resources?
This site gives us some answers:
“Natural Resources come from nature and are used to make things that we need.”
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:
LA Department of Natural Resources Kids’ Site

13. Example of a natural resource map

14. Natural Resource Map

15. Another natural resource map

16. Louisana’s 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.”

17. Climate Map of the World

18. Shaded Relief Map of Louisiana

19. Satellite Image Map of Louisiana

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

22. Compose Rose http://www. enchantedlearning

23. Learn the locations of all the states and their two letter abbreviations.

24. Practice placing the states with Ben.