Map elements: In Janine's words

In today's lesson we learned about the equator, Prime Meridian, Lines of longitude and latitude, directions, different types of compasses, legends, scales and time zones.

EQUATOR AND PRIME MERIDIAN
The equator is the line that the sun hits the most and splits the world in an imaginary two peices. The equator is 0 degrees Latitude. The prime Meridian is the line that divides the world into an imaginary 4 peices after the equator. The Prime Meridian is 0 degrees longitude.

LINES OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
Lines of altitude and longitude is what helps people find where they are on this big planet earth. Lines of Latitude go from East to West. Lines of Longitude go from North to South. The prime Meridian is also a line of Longitude

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMPASSES AND DIRECTIONS
There are 4 main directions, North, East, South and West. I know of 3 different types of compasses...The Rose compass, The regular compass and the one that has north east. The Compass rose is the one that shows at the corner of a map that sometimes doesn't show all the directions but it always shows North. The Regular and most common type of compass has every direction, N, E, S and W. The other compass that I don't know its name is the one that shows the intermediate directions and the Regular directions.

LEGENDS
Legends are small colored boxes with little symbols in them that are also on the map. They represent different things on the map such as Malls, Blocks, Strrets, Parks, etc.


That concludes todays lesson.