Vocabulary For Map
Perpendicular to – at right angles to.
Sentence – The main road is perpendicular to the train station.
Clockwise – following the rotating direction of the clock hands.
Sentence – Moving in a clockwise direction from the hospital, we can see the new car park.
Along – nearby
Sentence – Along the roadside we can see a new retail area and more office developments.
Map description verbs
Build: to make something by putting bricks or other materials together
Sentence – Three new hospitals were built.
Construct: To build something or put together different parts to form something whole.
Sentence – A new road was constructed next to the town.
Extend: to add to something in order to make it bigger or longer
Sentence – The main road into town was extended by 20 meters.
Expand: to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way
Sentence – The car park was expanded to accommodate an extra 50 cars.
Span: the period of time that something exists or happens
Sentence – The bridge spans the width of the river.
Remove: to take something or someone away from somewhere, or off something
Sentence – The developers removed the old post box near the retail area.
Area:
Width – the distance across something from one side to the other
Sentence – The width of the car park is over 100 meters
Length – the measurement of something from end to end or along its longest side
Sentence – The length of the pond is probably just under 20 meters.
Height – the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of being tall.
Sentence – The height of the first building is almost 70 meters.
Depth – the distance down either from the top of something to the bottom, or to a distance below the top surface
Sentence – of something
City / town
Community greens: Shared open green spaces in residential neighborhoods.
Sentence – Amenities in the University District include the Belden Tot Lot and Gesu Community Green and Garden.
Green belt: A policy used in urban planning to retain a “belt” of the natural environment around urban areas.
Sentence – New roads are cutting into the green belt.
Greenfield land: Untouched and pristine land. Fields and forests.
Sentence – This has been largely at the expense of rural and greenfield land.
Greyfield land: Buildings or real estate land that is economically useless. Disused car parks or abandoned factories.
Sentence – In 2006, she also began championing the municipal reclamation of greyfield lands.
Grid plan: A plan in the shape of a grid.
Sentence – The ancient Greeks often gave their colonies around the Mediterranean a grid plan.
Pavement / sidewalk: The part of the street dedicated to just pedestrians.
Sentence – I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it.
Roundabout: circular intersection for leaving and entering other roadways.
Sentence – In the afternoons they roamed the countryside roundabout.
Roadside: The side of the road. At the roadside there are three retailers.
Sentence – Children were selling cold drinks by the roadside.
Zone of transition: An area that is moving from one status to another. The area between the city centre and the green belt.
Sentence – This rapid zone of transition is called the upper timberline or tree line.
Landscape
Bay: small sea.
Sentence – We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.
Archipelago: a group of islands
Sentence – Means big bonfires all over in the archipelago.
Bog: wet spongy ground, swamp.
Sentence – The more she struggled the deeper she sank into the bog.
Canal: man made navigable water way
Sentence – His decapitated body was found floating in a canal.
Canyon: deep, narrow valley with steep sides, carved by a river
Sentence – As he fell, his scream resounded through the canyon.
Hedge: row of shrubs forming a boundary
Sentence – A hedge forms the division between her land and mine.
Moor: open land on hills with shrubs, heath
Sentence – You can moor just about anywhere the bank will take an iron peg or where a mooring ring is available.
Strait: narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water.
Sentence – The fleet had formed a single column for the passage through the strait.
