Mapping Our Environment

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🗺️ Part 1: Map Reading Skills

1. What are the five essential elements that every good map should include?

Title, legend, scale, north point, border

Rivers, roads, towns, parks, mountains

Colours, lines, symbols, numbers, letters

Digital tools, computers, GPS, satellites, apps

2. Which cartographic convention helps you understand what symbols and colours mean on a map?

Scale bar

North point

Legend (or key)

Border

3. Select all the physical features you might find along the Glenelg River:

River bends and meanders

Native vegetation areas

Rocky outcrops

Shopping centres

Wetlands and floodplains

4. If a map scale shows 1:50,000, this means that 1 centimetre on the map represents ________ metres in real life.

50 metres

500 metres

5,000 metres

50,000 metres

📝 Part 2: Understanding Our Local Environment

5. Explain why maps are important tools for understanding and protecting our environment. Give at least two reasons.

6. List three ways that geospatial technology (like GPS, satellite images, or digital mapping apps) can help us study the Glenelg River area:

a) ________________________________________________

b) ________________________________________________

c) ________________________________________________

7. Complete this sentence: A _____________ shows direction on a map, while a _____________ helps you measure real distances, and a _____________ explains what the symbols mean.

8. Why might it be important to include First Nations perspectives when mapping Country around the Glenelg River?

🎨 Part 3: Design Your Own Map

9. In the space below, create a simple sketch map of your local area (school, neighbourhood, or a place you know well). Include all five cartographic conventions: title, legend, scale, north point, and border.

10. Extension Challenge: If you were using digital mapping software to create a layered map of the Glenelg River, what three different layers of information would you include and why?

Layer 1: ___________________________________________

Why: ______________________________________________

Layer 2: ___________________________________________

Why: ______________________________________________

Layer 3: ___________________________________________

Why: ______________________________________________

Mapping Our Environment

Mapping Our Environment

🗺️ Part 1: Map Reading Skills

📝 Part 2: Understanding Our Local Environment

🎨 Part 3: Design Your Own Map

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