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What identifies different symbols on a map and what they represent?
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∙ 14y ago
the key or legend
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∙ 14y ago
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What identifies symbols on a map?
A map key
Is there a list of map symbols and their meanings?
Every map has different symbols and meanings to represent a feature. The legend at the bottom of every map has the symbols and their meanings.
What is the purpose of a map key or a legend?
The map key or legend helps map readers understand the relative distances, features, and sites printed on the map.When you open a map, you can usually find the legend near a corner. The legend identifies the symbols used on the map, the distance bars and the caveats that the map makers included in the map.
What is the purpose of a key on a map?
The key explains what the map's symbols mean.
How do you use a map key?
The key defines symbols like hospitals and city hall, etc. and includes a scale so you know how many miles per area there is.A map key tells you what certain colors and symbols represent on the map.
What identifies symbols on a map?
A map key
Is there a list of map symbols and their meanings?
Every map has different symbols and meanings to represent a feature. The legend at the bottom of every map has the symbols and their meanings.
Explain the purpose of a key ona map?
The key on a map identifies symbols that are used on that map, for example, different maps may use a different symbol to highlight a hospital's location, so each map has a key - or a legend - to explain it's symbols. For example:an airplane for an airport.
A map key should tell the what the symbols mean on a map what does a small blackened dot usually represent?
a amp key should tell what the symbols on a map mean. What does a blackened dot usually represent
What are some of the symbols physical and human made features that map symbols can represent?
canels
Symbols on a map that represent landmarks most likely are found on a maps?
represent the key...
What do map symbols represent?
Man-made and Natural Resources
What is on the map to describe the items on the map?
it is called a map key and it shows what the different symbols on the map represent. The key shows a symbol an then goes to explain what the symbol means-------This may also be known as a legend.
What topographic map symbols represent?
Man-made and Natural Resources
A key telling what symbols are used on a map to represent various features?
symbol
What are some of the physical and human-made features that map symbols can represent?
canels
What are some of physical and human-made features the map symbols can represent?
canels
