Mapping Skills

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Mapping Skills

• By Demetrio Henfield

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What is a Map?

• Maps and globes are important tools which are
  used to show information about the earth.
• Persons who make maps are call cartographers. The
  main objective of a map is to show the different
  landmasses, bodies of water and other helpful
  information.
• Nevertheless, maps ,and globes are totally
  different in shape.
• Maps are flat 2 dimensional replicas of the earth
  ,while globes are 3 dimensional, they are round
  models of the earth.

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Directions

• Directions are meant to guide us. On mostly
  all maps there are points facing North, south,
  east, and west. Directions are located using an
  apparatus called a compass.
• A compass shows you where you are going.
• A compass works with the earths magnetic field
  to point in the direction of north
• A compass on a map shows sixteen points in total.
• Cardinal points contain North, South, East, and
  West.
• Intermediate points contain Northeast,
  Southeast, Southwest, Northwest.
• Sixteen -point compass contains North North
  east, East North east, East South east, South
  South east, South South west, West South west,
  West North west, North North east.

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Cardinal Points
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Intermediate Points
NE
NW
SE
SW
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Sixteen-Point Compass
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Bearings

• Each point on a compass has a bearing.
• Bearings are used to provide an exact location a
  place.
• They are measured in degrees

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Compass Bearings
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Who Wants to be a
Millionaire?
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2. What is a Map?

• A tool use to show information about the earth
• A character from Dora The Explorer.

• A piece of paper
• A document

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3. What is another name for Map maker?
100

• Map creator
• Photographer

• Author
• Cartographer

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4. Other than a map, what other tool can be use
to show information of the earth?
200

• A compass
• A satellite

• A globe
• An atlas

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5. How is a map described as?
500

• A rectangle
• A flat 2D replica of the earth

• A square
• A triangle

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6. How is a globe described as?
1000

• A circle
• A 3D, round model of the earth

• An oval
• A Cube

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7. What is a compass?
5000

• A watch
• A mathematical apparatus

A tool that shows where your going
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8. How does a compass work ?
10,000

• With the magnetic field
• With batteries

• It is charged
• With air

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9. How many points are in a Cardinal Point
compass?
50,000

• 6
• 4

• 8
• 10

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10. How many points are on a Intermediate
compass?
100,000

• 16
• 15

• 8
• 9

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11. What are bearings ?
50,000

• Earrings for bears
• Stuff we deal with

• Degrees
• Statistics that give the exact location of a
  place

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12. What is the opposite of NNE ?
1,000,000

• ENN
• ENE

• SSW
• ESE

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Poll the audience
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Phone a friend
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50 / 50