Skills

Mapping Skills
BOLTSS- Boarder (a line drawn around the map shows where the mapped
area ends), Orientation (direction arrow showing where north is), Legend
(key showing what symbols mean), Title, Scale (words or figures or lines to
show how much smaller the map is than the actual place), Source (where
the map comes from and when).

Latitude and Longitude

Latitude is across (x axis) and Longitude is down (y axis). The equator is the
line across the middle of the earth, the north and south pole are at the two
tips of the earth, the northern hemisphere is the top half of the earth and
the southern is the bottom.

Bearings
Step 3: Use a protractor
to measure the angle
clockwise from north to
point B. Start from the
vertical line to line AB.
Step 1: To state the
bearing of point B from
point A, draw a pencil
line between point a
and B.

Step 2: Then draw a

straight vertical line on
top of point A.

Scale
The scale tells us the extent to which distance on the ground has been
reduced to fit on the map. There are three types of scales:
Sentence scales appear as a sentence. For example, 1 centimetre represents
10 metres or 1 centimetre to 10 metres.
Ratio scales (also called representive fractions) use numbers. For example, a
scale of 1: 100,000 means that 1 centimetre of the measurement represents
100,000 centimetres on the ground or 1000 metres, or 1 kilometre.
Linear scales are a numbered line. A linear scale is shown on a line divided
into even sections that represent a distance on Earth. For example,

One cm represents 1500m, or 1.5 km.

Climate Graph
A graph about a climate is called a climograph. It includes: A title, a line
graph showing the temperature, a bar graph showing the rainfall, a
legend/key to show what the line and bars stand for.