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World Geography Map
Notes about the map and about world geography.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you use to relate direction to the real world? | Compass Rose |
| Why is it important to have a title for your map? | To allow the reader to understand the meaning of the map |
| Why do cartographers use the date? | To make sure that their map is up to scale on everything that has happened so it is accurate. |
| Why is it important that a map be up to a certain scale? | So map readers can measure parts of the map to calculate accurate distances in the real world |
| Explain how a symbol can be described and what its use it. | Can be a line, dot, circle, square, etc. Is used to tell the reader that there is something there. |
| Explain what symbols are sometimes called and where they are located. | Found in a key usually located in a box. |
| What is important about labels? | They identify a location. |
| Where are longitude and latitude found? | On the grid. |