Geography: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Map Skills (Answers)
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Map skills involve reading maps, using a compass and general navigation knowledge. Maps are used to help us find our way around. They are representations of real roads, buildings, rivers etc. which can be used to plan a route, to guide us when we are lost or to explore an area without leaving the comfort of our own homes. Reading maps is an essential, and a rewarding, skill.
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The very first atlas had a picture of the Greek Titan Atlas, holding up the world, on its cover
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The world is also referred to as the globe
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The English word 'cartography' comes from the Ancient Greek words for 'map' and 'writing'
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A compass needle always points towards the North Pole
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Just as the North Pole is seen as the top of a globe, north is seen as the top of a map
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Just as the South Pole is seen as the bottom of a globe, south is seen as the bottom of a map
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The sun always rises in the East
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The points of the compass can be remembered like this: Never Eat Soggy Worms - that's North, East, South and West starting at the top and going round clockwise
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The first coordinate gives the grid reference at the bottom while the second one goes up the side
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Each map has a key and it tells you, for example, what a expressway, a river or a church look like on the map
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