https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/Recent content in Maps and Places on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/what-is-a-map/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/what-is-a-map/A map is a drawing of a place as if you were looking down on it from the sky. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/birds-eye-view/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/birds-eye-view/From above, a table looks like a rectangle and a ball looks like a circle; match each thing to its top view. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/room-map/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/room-map/A map of a room shows where the bed, the table and the door are, drawn smaller than the real room. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-symbols/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-symbols/A symbol is a small picture or shape on a map that stands for a real thing, like a tree, a house, a road or a school. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-key/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-key/The key (also called the legend) is the box that tells what each symbol on the map means. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-colors/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-colors/On many maps blue means water, green means parks, forests or low land, and brown or tan means mountains or dry land. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/parts-of-a-map/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/parts-of-a-map/Most maps have a title, a key, a compass rose and a scale: together they say what, where and how far. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/location-words/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/location-words/Words like left, right, above, below, next to, between, near and far tell where things are. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/cardinal-directions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/cardinal-directions/The four cardinal directions are north, south, east and west; on most maps north is at the top. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/compass-rose/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/compass-rose/A compass rose shows the directions on a map; going clockwise from the top they are north, east, south and west. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/follow-directions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/follow-directions/Follow steps like "go 2 blocks north, then 3 blocks east" to find where you end up. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/intermediate-directions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/intermediate-directions/Northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest are halfway between the cardinal directions. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/sun-directions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/sun-directions/The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so morning sunlight comes from the east. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/using-a-compass/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/using-a-compass/A compass needle turns to point north; once you know north, you can find every other direction. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/grid-squares/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/grid-squares/A grid map has letters along one edge and numbers along another, so every square has a name like B3. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/grid-locate/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/grid-locate/Look at where a thing is on a grid map, then name its square with its letter and number. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/routes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/routes/A route is the way you travel from one place to another; on a map you can trace it and count the blocks. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-scale/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/map-scale/A scale bar shows how far a length on the map is in real life, like 1 inch for 1 mile. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/address/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/address/An address tells exactly where a home is: a house number, a street, a town or city, a state and a ZIP code. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/nested-places/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/nested-places/Your home is in a neighborhood, in a town or city, in a state, in a country, on a continent, on planet Earth. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/city-suburb-rural/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/city-suburb-rural/A city is a big, busy town; a suburb is a town of homes near a city; rural places have farms, fields and few houses. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/states-of-us/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/states-of-us/The United States is a country made of 50 states; each state has its own shape on the map. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/capital-city/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/capital-city/A capital is the city where a country's or a state's government meets; Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/north-america/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/north-america/The United States is in North America; Canada is to the north and Mexico is to the south. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/land-and-water/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/land-and-water/Earth has land and water; about 71 out of every 100 parts of its surface are water, mostly ocean. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/mountains-hills-valleys/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/mountains-hills-valleys/A mountain is very high land, a hill is lower and rounder, and a valley is the low land between them. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/plains-plateaus/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/plains-plateaus/A plain is wide, flat, low land; a plateau is flat land high up, with steep sides. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/island-peninsula/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/island-peninsula/An island is land with water all around it; a peninsula has water on three sides and joins the mainland on one. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/oceans-lakes-rivers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/oceans-lakes-rivers/An ocean is a huge body of salt water; a lake has land all around it; a river is water flowing across the land. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/river-parts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/river-parts/A river starts at its source, flows downhill, gets help from smaller rivers called tributaries, and ends at its mouth. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/bays-gulfs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/bays-gulfs/A coast is where land meets the sea; a bay is part of the sea that curves into the land, and a gulf is a very large bay. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/landform-pairs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/landform-pairs/Some land and water shapes are opposites: an island and a lake, a peninsula and a bay, an isthmus and a strait. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/deserts-forests-grasslands/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/deserts-forests-grasslands/A desert gets very little rain, a forest is covered with trees, and a grassland is wide open land covered with grass. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/globe/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/globe/A globe is a small, round model of Earth that shows land and water in their true shapes. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/globe-vs-map/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/globe-vs-map/A flat map is easy to carry and shows the whole world at once, but it stretches some places; a globe does not. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/continents/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/continents/The seven continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/find-continents/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/find-continents/Find each continent on a world map by its shape and its place: Asia is the biggest, Australia the smallest, Antarctica at the bottom. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/oceans/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/oceans/The five oceans are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern; the Pacific is the biggest and the Arctic the smallest. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/continent-animals/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/continent-animals/Many animals live wild on only one continent: kangaroos in Australia, emperor penguins on Antarctica, giraffes in Africa. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/equator/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/equator/The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of Earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/poles/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/poles/The North Pole is the farthest point north on Earth, in the Arctic Ocean; the South Pole is the farthest south, on Antarctica. Maps and Places · Geography Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/hemispheres/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/geography/maps-and-places/hemispheres/The equator cuts Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; another line splits it into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Maps and Places · Geography Ladder