Map Skills Flashcards
1
Q
Public house
A
PH
2
Q
Parking
A
🅿️
3
Q
Docking area
A
⛵️
4
Q
Pond/fishing
A
🐟
5
Q
Service area
A
S
6
Q
Telephone box
A
📞
7
Q
Church
A
✝️
8
Q
Blue line
A
River
9
Q
+
A
Place of worship
10
Q
Pink line
A
Foot paths
11
Q
How to find a 4 GR
A
Along the corridor and upstairs, always use the bottom left hand corner of the grid Square 
12
Q
Spot height
A
These give an exact height point on the map
.300
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13
Q
Contours
A
Contours are lines down a map, they join places which have the same height 
⭕️300
14
Q
Layer colouring
A
Lay colouring areas of different heights of shown by bands of different colours 
15
Q
What is scale
A
The scale of a map shows how much to enlarge your map to get the actual size of the piece of land you are looking at 
16
Q
What does scale look like
A
- l————l————-l
- A scale line
2.1:250,000
1cm=250m. =ratio scale
3.4cm=1km =description
