In addition to conventional political features – states and key cities – the Wide-RangingTM Readiness 2-Part United States map also shows: Indian reservations & Alaskan indigenous nations National Parks & historically significant sites Alaska to scale and unabridged Hawaii ecosystems and land cover limits of ice water during the cold season time zones interstate highways built-up areas and cultivated lands capital cities set against a light background for easy identification The legend illustrates terrain types by showing photographs of the terrain, illustrating the nature of broadleaf forests versus needleleaf forests, deserts, grasslands, and tundra. Four insets show climate, mineral distribution, political features, and the spatial relationship between the lower 48 states, Alaska, and Hawaii. The climate map displays the gamut of climate across the country including dry climate, warm and cool summer climate, tropical, marine, and polar and highland climate. The mineral map indicates the location of gold, iron, oil, gas, silver, diamond, copper, tungsten, bauxite, phosphorus and coal.