This document discusses key map reading skills, including identifying the cardinal and intermediate directions, reading a map's key, symbols, and scale, and using lines of latitude and longitude to locate specific places on a map through their coordinates or more generally within a grid system. It also mentions several games that can help teach these skills, such as a compass game, map symbol game, and grid and mystery island games.

1. New York Geography Chapter 1 Lesson 2: Map Skills

2. II. What are the Cardinal Directions? A. North, East, South, West I. Map Title- names the map What are Intermediate directions? A. Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest Compass Game

4. IV. How do we read a map? A. Look at the map key/legend - show what symbols on a map mean B. Symbols - pictures, colors, lines or patterns on a map that stand for something else Map Symbol Game

6. V. How can we figure out the distance between places on a map? A. Map Scale- a symbol used to show the distance

8. VI. How do we find a specific place on a map? A. Lines of Latitude ( )- run horizontally on a map. 1. Run north or south of equator 2. Measured in degrees from 0° - 90° 3. __________- starting line of latitude at 0° parallels Equator

10. B. Lines of Longitude- run vertically on a map 1. Run east and west 2. Measured in degrees from 0° - 90° 3. - starting line of longitude measured at 0° Prime Meridian

11. VII. How do we find a general place on a map? A. Map Grid – helps find general locations on a map using letters and numbers (A,1) Mystery Island Game Grid Game