Maps

What can you do with a map?

• Use it to find your way home, or get to a certain place

• Play fetch with your dog

• Play games

• Buy movie tickets

How do you know what the map is all about?

• Read the title
• Look at the map key
• Look at the compass rose

What is a symbol?

• a photograph of something

• an object or picture that represents something else

• a fun picture

A __________ tells you what each symbol on the map stands for.

• scale

• compass rose

• map key

• title

North, south, east and west are known as the 

• compass rose
• cardinal directions
• map
• GPS

What is this a picture of?

• map
• Earth
• globe
• compass rose

Maps help people find locations.

• Yes
• No

Is a globe a map?

• Yes

• No

Are all maps flat?

• Yes

• No

This is a map of the

• the world
• planet Earth
• Woodbridge, Virginia
• United Sates of America