A book of maps and facts about geography. The Complete Library Skills.

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A book of maps and facts about geography. The Complete Library Skills

Atlas Vocabulary: Legend and Scale: They help you read a map. A legend or key will tell you what the colored areas mean and what the symbols stand for. The scale helps you relate a distance on the map to the actual distance in km or miles – sometimes it is marked of on a number line

Map Symbols – Usually shown in the legend or key of the map

Vocabulary cont. Index: will tell you on which page in the atlas you will find the place you are looking for.

Types of Maps: 1.Relief-show physical geography

2.Political Map- shows by a color plan countries, boundaries, and principal and capital cities.

A physical- political map combines the features of both the physical map and the political map

3. Economic Map- shows were products are grown and where various industries are.

Examples of other maps include: A. Climate

Other maps cont. B. Biodiversity

Other Maps. cont. C. Precipitation

Other Maps cont. D. Transportation (Road map) In addition to roads, the map might also show railroads, airports, usable rivers, canals, and seaports

E. Tectonic plates

F. Volcanic Activity and Earthquakes

The map subjects are almost limitless: Maps can be used to show anything that has spatial characteristics, some of the topics (just a sample) are: Natural vegetation Population density Migration routes Mineral deposits Disease occurrences Tourist site locations Ethnic diversity Which languages are spoken in various places Election results Commercial routes within or among countries Etc.

Some atlases specialize in one kind of information. Historical atlas Biblical atlas Economic atlas Atlas of diseases Agricultural atlas Climate and meteorology atlas Civil War (actually any war) atlas Major religions atlas Demographic atlas Etc.

References Turrell, Linda. The Complete Library Skills-Grade 5. Mineappolis, Minnesota. T.S. Denison & Company Inc. Google images ADBR_enSV295SV296&q=maps