U.S. Map Cards

.These cards are designed to provide practice in locating various types of information found on a map, on a globe, or in an atlas.

The four sets of cards contain questions requiring students to use general map-reading skills to:

• Identify types of maps: physical, political, product road, and time zone
• Identify map and glove features: equator, hemispheres, land and water, longitude and latitude
• Use a compass rose
• Use a map legend (key)
• Name states and their capital cities
• Locate information in an atlas

Each set contains the following:

• 32 question cards
• List of skills practiced in the section
• A reproducible answer form
• Storage Pocket
• Answer key on the back of each storage pocket