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Map Skills

Mrs. Owen Social Studies

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Maps Representation of something on the Earth's surface.
Physical Maps Show natural features like, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Political Maps Show borders of areas like, countries, states, and cities.
Historical Maps Show movement of people, battles, and changing borders.
Symbols Symbols tell you what things are.
Legend (key) Tells you what the symbols, lines, and colors mean on a map.
Labels Labels are words that can explain something about the map.
Compass Rose Tells you which way north, south, east, and west are.
Scale Shows the ratio between the distance on the map and the distance in real life.
Latitude and Longitude Those lines can tell you your exact location on the planet.
Time Zones The Earth is divided into 24 time zones, one for every hour of the day.
Longitude The time zones run north-south, each taking up about 15 degrees longitude.
Meridians Longitude lines or meridians are the imaginary lines that run north-south between the two poles.
Degrees There are 360 of these imaginary lines called degrees.
Prime Meridian The Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England at 0 degrees longitude, is the reference point for all other times on Earth.
Universal Time The time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory is known as Universal Time or sometimes Greenwich Mean Time.
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