Map Skills

What is this?

• legend

• title

• compass rose

• scale

What is this?

• compass rose

• key/legend

• title

What are the four cardinal directions?

• North, South, East, West

• Eeney, Meeney, Miney, Mo

• Up, South, Left, West

• Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Donald

What are the small pictures that represent things on the map called?

• legend

• title

• symbols

What does the title of a map tell you?

• How big the map is

• What the map is about and the area it shows

• Where you can find monkeys at the zoo

Why do people use maps?

• They like looking at things

• To help show where things you already know are located

• Maps show where things are and which direction to go

The sun is fox is ___________ of the beetle.

• North

• East

• South

• West

The snake is __________ of the flower bush.

• North

• East

• South

• West

The sun is __________ of the fox.

• North

• East

• South

• West

The snake is __________ of the fox.

• North

• East

• South

• West