locating places on maps – chapter 3 geography of canada geographer’s toolkit – chapter 3

Locating Places on Maps – chapter 3Geography of Canada

Geographer’s Toolkit – chapter 3

Try these:

Convert the following

Direct Statement Representative Fraction

1 cm = 1 km

1 cm = 0.5 km

1: 200 000

1: 10 000 000

• Homework check – chapter 4

Geographer’s Toolkit

Learning Goals:

•I can identify and use various types of maps, including general purpose, topographic, thematic and digital maps.

•I can determine locations on a map using directions and compass bearings

Types of Maps

• General Purpose Maps– A map drawn to scale using

symbols and colours to indicate major roads for transportation purposes

– Often includes parks, hospitals, and tourist attractions

– Can be both small scale (a country map) and large scale (a city map)

Types of Maps

General Purpose Map of the “Golden Horseshoe” (Niagara Falls to Clarington)

Types of Maps

• Topographic Maps– A map that indicates scale, using symbols and colours

for both natural and human features on the Earth’s surface

– Shows the Earth’s surface in great detail (large scale)– Depicts the height of land features (topography)– Often shows roads, settlements, vegetation cover,

power lines, etc.

Types of Maps

• Topographic Map of Blue Mountain (Collingwood)

Types of Maps

• Thematic Maps– A map that reveals the geographic patterns of

statistical data– Are designed to display distributions over the Earth’s

surface– Usually focuses on one

theme or topic (e.g., population distribution)

Types of Maps

• Thematic map showing electricity generating stations in Canada

Direction and Bearings

• On a map, we assume north is ‘up’

Compass Points

• On a compass (or compass rose), directions can be indicated.

• To read a compass, begin at north; continue to east, south, and west (clockwise).

Direction and Bearings

Cardinal points on a compass are;

•North (N), East (E), South (S), and west (W).

Direction and Bearings

Ordinal points on a compass are the points in between the cardinal points.

These points include;

•Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Southwest (SW), and Northwest (NW).

Direction and Bearings

Third level points include;

•North-northeast (NNE), East-northeast (ENE), East-southeast (ESE), South-southeast (SSE), South-southwest (SSW), West-southwest (WSW), West-northwest (WNW), North-northwest (NNW).

Angular bearings

• A compass rose is the shape of a circle.

• A circle has 360 degrees.

• As a result, a compass direction can be given a bearing or a number degree.

• North is 0 degrees or 360 degrees. East is 90 degrees, South is 180 degrees, and West is 270 degrees.

Next direction (or is it ONE Direction?)

• Compass rose.

Pilots test

Applied:

Chapter 3

Page 40 #1-6

Academic

• Chapter 3 DUE THURS. FEB 28th – Read– Define key terms– Answer, page 43 #1-5, 8