Atlas Skills

In this unit you will find out the answers to the following questions:

1. How do you use an atlas?
2. How do lines of longitude and latitude help to locate places in the world?
3. What are thematic maps?
4. What do climate graphs help us to understand about a place?
5. How is height and relief shown on maps?

You will develop the following skills:

1. Using maps and atlases
2. Drawing and explaining climate graphs
3. Using maps of different scales and projections
4. Recognising patterns from maps

Key words to learn
Antarctic circle, Arctic circle, compass direction, equator, hemisphere, latitude, longitude, prime meridian, scale, relief, thematic map, tropics,