Choose a question about travel, farming, fishing, jobs, land use, or community places. A specialized map focuses on one theme.
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statewide · 2000s
Explore soil maps, including soils suited to growing food.
Does good farmland soil always have a farm on it?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
statewide · 2000s
Find coastal areas mapped for shellfish habitat and management.
Why do shellfish maps follow water boundaries?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
statewide · 2000s
Compare places with conditions suited to different shellfish.
Would every kind of shellfish need the same habitat?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
statewide · 2000s
Compare forests, farms, developed land, and other land uses.
What land uses lie beside a river or road?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
statewide · 2000s
Trace roads of different sizes through the Commonwealth.
Which highways connect the biggest urban areas?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
Open transportation layers to compare ways of moving people and goods.
Which travel routes can cross water?
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statewide · 2000s
Locate places where farms sell food to nearby communities.
How far might food travel from a farm to a market?
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
Find farms and local agricultural products around Massachusetts.
What farm products can you find near your community?
Open the official map resource ↗Inspect roads and learn how transportation planners describe them.
How does a local street differ from a highway?
Open the official map resource ↗Select a Massachusetts community and explore jobs and travel to work.
Do most workers live in the same town where they work?
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statewide · 2000s
Use the official statewide map to follow major travel routes.
Plan a route from the Berkshires to Cape Cod.
Compare the map’s creator, date, purpose, scale, and missing information with a second map. Explain what changed and what stayed connected.
Locate public airports across Massachusetts, including the islands.
Why might an island need both a ferry port and an airport?
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