Map Skills

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MapSkillsPkt.pdf

Map Skills Packet

Latitude & Longitude

Latitude and Longitude Practice

Use the World Atlas book pages 4-5 to name the country at the given coordinates.

Use the World Atlas book page 35 to find the latitude and longitude coordinates for the given city.

Steps for finding the distance between 2 points on a map.

Materials needed: long piece of paper, pencil and colored pencil.

Step 1 - mark 2 points on the paper with a pencil
Step 2 - line up 1st mark with front of scale
Step 3 - use a colored pencil to mark scale chunks and write that distance for each chunk below
Step 4 - estimate the final chunk
Step 5 - add up all the numbers you wrote for each scale chunk, if more than the length of 1 scale

Calculating Distance - Practice (use page 35 in the class Atlas)

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