Building Skills - Reading a Resource Map

UNIT ONE: Toward Independence

Lesson 36

BUILDING SKILLS -

READING A NATURAL RESOURCE MAP

LEFT SIDE

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WARM-UP

How do maps represent different types of resources?

Cut Off and Attach the Directions and Map of the Natural Resources of the Contiguous United States.

CLICK

for a LARGER VERSION.

RIGHT SIDE

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OBJECTIVE:

Interpret information from a special featuer map on the Natural Resources of the Contiguous United States.

Attach and Answer the Questions on the Natural Resource map of the Contiguous United States.

The maps on pages 588-589 and 591 may be helpful.

Which area of the country, according to this map, is least rich in mineral deposits?

Which of the minerals listed here is not found in the western half of the United States?