Definition of legend and geography from: The American Heritage Dictionary/ of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geography.

Definition of reference frame from: www.dpc.ucar.edu/VoyagerJr/glossary.html

Definition of sketch map from: http://dictionary.reference.com/

*Definition adapted from: Armantrout, N. B. compiler. 1998. Glossary of aquatic habitat inventory terminology. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

#Definition adapted from: Krygier, John and Denis Wood. 2005. Making maps: a visual guide to map design for GIS, accessed through http://makingmaps.owu.edu

$Definition adapted from: glossary of cartography and map terminology, http://www.worldatlas.com/mapterms.htm, sensu Maps for America, 3rd edition.

Abiotic

Agricultural Map

Anthropogenic *

Archaeological Map

Astronomy Map

Biotic

Cartography $

Choropleth Map

Contour *

Coordinates

Ecosystem *

Elevation *

Epidemiology Map

Forestry Map $

Geographic Information System (GIS) *

Geography

Global Positioning System (GPS) *

Graphic Scale #

Landscape *

Latitude $

Legend

Longitude $

Map

Meteorological Map

Planimetric Map $

Reference Datum

Reference Frame

Reference Maps #

Relief *

Remote Sensing *

Representative Fraction #

Sketch Map

Thematic Maps #

Topographic Map $

Topography

Transect *

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

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