18. Colors
Water bodies – Blue
Mountains and highlands – Brown and
Yellow
Plains - Green
19.
20. Legends and keys
The legend on a map provides essential
information for the map reader.
It tells us what the symbols used on that map
mean and is one of the first things you should
look at on a map.
The legend tells us how to spot different types of
roads, lakes, rivers, county boundaries, railways
and much more.
24. Grid System
the imaginary vertical and horizontal lines which collectively forms
the Grid.
25. Let’s learn a bit more about these
imaginary lines….
26. Questions
1. What is equator?
2. What is Northern hemisphere and
southern hemisphere? Draw diagram
and label it.
3. Which are those four important
latitudes?
4. What is great circle?
5. What is parallels of latitude?