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Likes Legend• The legend lists the symbols used on the map, including any special
colors or shading, and identifies what each symbol represents.
What is wrong here?
Cooking Compass Rose
• The compass rose shows where the four basic directions – north, south, east, and west – are found on the map.• What if there is no compass rose?
Steaks Scale
• Cartographers (mapmakers) use scale to show how much a map has been reduced, it shows the actual distance between places on the map.
Latitude imaginary horizontal lines that run parallel across the Earth• The EQUATOR (identified as 0 degrees) stretches around the middle of
the Earth• It divides the Earth into two hemispheres (North and South)
• Latitude lines are described by how far north or south of the equator they are located, from 1 – 90 degrees
Longitude imaginary lines that run up and down the Earth• The PRIME MERIDIAN (identified as 0 degrees) is the most important
longitude line• It divides Earth into two hemispheres (Eastern & Western)
• Lines of longitude increase from 1-180 degrees
How to remember the difference?
• Ladder – tude and Long – e – tude• SHUT YO MOUTH!• Rhyme Time: Longitude lines go up and down, latitude lines go round
and round• Don’t give me no latitude!