Lesson 3 Map Reading Flashcards

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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.

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Map Reading

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7 Common Kinds of Map

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Political Map
Physical Map
Topographic Map
Thematic Map
Climate Map
Road Map
Geological Map

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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.

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Topographic Map

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These maps illustrates different climatic regions, showing average temperature , rainfall, wind patterns and other climatic features.

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Climate Map

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it focus on specific themes or topics, such as population density, climate, economic activity, vegetation, or demographics.

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Thematic Map

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It illustrate the geological structure of an area, indicating rock types, faults, mineral deposits, and other geological features.

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Geological Map

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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

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Physical Map

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These maps displays boundaries of countries, cities, and other human-made divisions. They focus on illustrating governmental boundaries and locations of cities or towns

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Political Map

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Designed for navigation, it
shows highways, streets, and transportation networks. They also include information about gas stations, landmarks, and points of interests along routes

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Road Map

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8 Parts of the Map

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Title
Legend
Scale
Compass Rose
Grid Lines
Insets
Borders
Source & Date

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It displays cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) and sometimes intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, etc.)

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Compass Rose

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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.

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Insets

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______ 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.

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Grid Lines

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Some maps include information about the data sources used to create map and the date of its creation or last update.

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Source & Date

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It indicates ratio or relationship between distances on the map and the actual distance on the ground.

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Scale

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It provides the map’s subject or theme, specifying the area covered and the purpose of the map. It offers quick overview of what the map represents.

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Title

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It delineates divisions between countries, states, cities, or regions.

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Border and Boundaries

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The _____ explains the symbols, colors, and markings used on the map. It helps users understand the meaning of various features represented, such as roads, landmarks, boundaries, etc.

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Legend

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Procedure in finding the Coordinates using Physical Map

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Check for coordinates on the map
Locate the point of interest
Read latitude and longitude lines
Determine Cardinal Directions
Record the coordinates