What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part...

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What is a Map

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Page 1: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

What is a Map?

Page 2: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

Page 3: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

What are the parts or components that all maps have?

1. A Title

2. A Key or Legend

3. A Compass Rose

4. A Scale

Page 4: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

A Title is a descriptive or general heading (as of a chapter in a book) or the heading that names something

All maps have a title so that a person knows what the topic or what information is being shown by the map

Page 5: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

All maps will have a key or a legend that explains what the different symbols on the map mean.

Page 6: What is a Map ?. A Map is a visual representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

A Compass Rose is a figure displaying the orientation of the cardinal directions, north, south, east and west on a map or nautical chart.

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Intermediate Directions - The points of the compass that fall between north and east, north and west, south and east, and south and west (e.g., NE, NW, SE, and SW).

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A Scale is defined as the relationship between a distance measured on the map and the true distance on the ground or the size of an area on a map as compared with the area's actual size

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All world maps have distortion. Distortion – A change in the accuracy of shapes or distances.