3 rd Grade Communities and Map Skills
What do we call a community that includes cities and have more apartment buildings than houses, and include skyscrapers, stores, and lots of people? ____________________________
Urban
What do we call a community that is located near urban communities where people live in homes and apartment buildings; there are stores, but no skyscrapers? ___________________
Suburban
What do we call a community that has homes separated by farms, woodlands, and meadows where people usually have to drive to suburban communities to do their shopping? _______________________________
Rural
What do we call a map that shows the borders of cities, states, countries, and continents? ______________________________________
Political Map
What do we call a map that shows the usual weather in the area including rainfall and snowfall? ___________________________
Climate Map
What do we call a map that shows the physical characteristics of a place including mountains, valleys, and rivers? ______________________________
Physical Map
What do we call a map that shows the things that are grown, made, or mined in an area? ________________
Product Map
What tells us what the drawings or patterns on a map mean? ______________________
Map Key
What tells us the distance on a map compared to the distance that has been drawn? ________________________
Map Scale