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Page 1: A book of maps and facts about geography. The Complete Library Skills-Grade 5.

AtlasA book of maps and facts about geography.

The Complete Library Skills-Grade 5

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Atlas Vocabulary:Legend and symbols:The legend helps you read a map.Will tell you what the colored areas meanThe scale or how many km or miles – it is

marked of on a number line

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Map Symbols

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Vocabulary cont.

Index: will tell you were in the atlas you will find the place you are looking for.

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Types of Maps:1.Relief-show physical geography

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2.Political Map- shows by a color plan countries, boundaries, and principal and capital cities.

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3. Economic Map- shows were products are grown and where various industries are.

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Examples of other maps include:A. Climate

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Other maps cont.B. Biodiversity

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Other Maps. cont.C. Precipitation

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Other Maps cont.D. Transportation

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E. Tectonic plates

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F. Volcanic Activity and Earthquakes

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ReferencesTurrell, Linda. The Complete Library

Skills-Grade 5. Mineappolis, Minnesota. T.S. Denison & Company Inc.

Google imageshttp://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSV295SV296&q=maps