What Parts Of a map can you name? what do you look for when you see a map?

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What Parts Of a map can you name?what do you
look for when you see a map?
Warm Up 3
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• Introduction to Map Skills

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Important parts of A Map Globe thing to look
for first

• 6 Things that should be on EVERY map
• Title - should be pertaining to the subject of
  the map.
• Orientation - Compass Rose should indicate North.
• Date - What the date is.
• Author - Who created the map.
• Legend - What symbols mean on the map. (key)
• Scale - The size of space on the map
• TODALS!

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Parts of a Mapthis is the title! )
Map Scale
Compass Rose shows the orientation
Map Key/Legend
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Activity Identify the Map Parts 1-4Raise your
hand to answer ?
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What types of maps are there?

• Physical
• Political
• Thematic (Chloropleth and Cartogram)

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What Are Political Maps?

• Show features on the earths surface that humans
  created
• Political Borders borders decided by
  Governments (latitude longitude)
• Examples?
• National and State Borders, City Limits, capitals

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What Are Physical Maps?

• show types of landforms and bodies of water
• Physical Borders countries Separated by a
  physical feature
• Ex. Rio Grande River, Ural Mountains

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What Are Chloropleths?

• Thematic map that uses graded differences in
  shading or color or the placing of symbols inside
  defined areas on the map in order to indicate the
  average values of some property or quantity in
  those areas
• Many different kinds.
• Examples???
• Climate
• Vegetation
• Natural Resources
• Population

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What are Cartograms?

• A cartogram is a map in which some thematic
  mapping variable is substituted for land area or
  distance.
• The geometry or space of the map is distorted in
  order to convey the information of this alternate
  variable.

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The Geographers Grid Latitude/Longitude
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important lines on Geographers Grid

• Equator -
• Runs East and West
• divides Earth into Northern and Southern
  Hemispheres
• Prime Meridian
• Runs North and South
• Divides Earth into Eastern and Western
  Hemispheres

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What is a hemisphere?

• One half of the Earth.

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The Tropics

• Tropic of Cancer
• 23.5 North of Equator
• Suns most northern location occurring on June
  21st
• Tropic of Capricorn
• 23.5 South of Equator
• Suns most southern location occurring on
  December 21st

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the Polar Circles

• Arctic Circle
• 66.5 North of the Equator
• begins the North polar region
• Antarctic Circle
• 66.5 South of the Equator
• begins South polar regions

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What is Latitude and Longitude?

• It is a grid for finding your
• location on the Earth.
• Like X and Y from the grid in math class,
• like a football field,
• or like the game Battleship

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LatitudeFlatitude

• Run East/ West
• parallel to Equator
• Measures North and South
• Furthest North 90 degrees North latitude
• Furthest South 90 degrees South latitude
• Important lines of Latitude
• Equator
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Arctic Circle
• Antarctic Circle

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Longitude

• Run north/ south
• Measures East and West
• There are 180 degrees of East longitude
• and 180 degrees of West longitude
• Total 360 degree circle
• All lines meet at North Pole and South Pole

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How do you use Latitude and Longitude to find
your way?

1. Find the right hemispheres (N, S, E, W).
2. Trace latitude and longitude till they meet.
3. FOLLOW THE CURVE!

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Lets Practice using Latitude and Longitude!
But first, lets watch Matt dance!