Lesson 3 Map Reading Flashcards
It is the two dimension represetantion of a place.
Understanding maps is a fundamental skill that offers a broader perspective of the world, facilitates navigation, aids in decision making, and supports learning invarious academic disciplines and real-life situations.
Map Reading
7 Common Kinds of Map
Political Map
Physical Map
Topographic Map
Thematic Map
Climate Map
Road Map
Geological Map
Represents detailed map features including tour lines indicating elevation changes, forests, bodies of water, and man-made structures. They’re commonly used in geography, land surveying,and outdoor activites like hiking.
Topographic Map
These maps illustrates different climatic regions, showing average temperature , rainfall, wind patterns and other climatic features.
Climate Map
it focus on specific themes or topics, such as population density, climate, economic activity, vegetation, or demographics.
Thematic Map
It illustrate the geological structure of an area, indicating rock types, faults, mineral deposits, and other geological features.
Geological Map
It showcase the natural features of an area, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys and terrain. They provide visual representation of the landscape’s physical characteristics
Physical Map
These maps displays boundaries of countries, cities, and other human-made divisions. They focus on illustrating governmental boundaries and locations of cities or towns
Political Map
Designed for navigation, it
shows highways, streets, and transportation networks. They also include information about gas stations, landmarks, and points of interests along routes
Road Map
8 Parts of the Map
Title
Legend
Scale
Compass Rose
Grid Lines
Insets
Borders
Source & Date
It displays cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) and sometimes intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, etc.)
Compass Rose
A small supplementary maps included within the main map to provide additional detail for specific areas that cannot be accurately represented at the same scale map.
Insets
______ are used to locate specific points on the map. They create reference system for navigation and can be in the form of latitude and longitude.
Grid Lines
Some maps include information about the data sources used to create map and the date of its creation or last update.
Source & Date
It indicates ratio or relationship between distances on the map and the actual distance on the ground.
Scale