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CSEC Mapwork Revision Guide

The document serves as a revision guide for map work, outlining essential map elements such as title, scale, legend, and grid references. It explains how to read and interpret maps, including the use of bearings, contours, and drainage patterns. Additionally, it covers latitude and longitude for pinpointing locations and time zone differences related to longitude.

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CSEC Mapwork Revision Guide

The document serves as a revision guide for map work, outlining essential map elements such as title, scale, legend, and grid references. It explains how to read and interpret maps, including the use of bearings, contours, and drainage patterns. Additionally, it covers latitude and longitude for pinpointing locations and time zone differences related to longitude.

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Map Work – Revision Guide

Essential elements of maps

Title
Scale
Legend (key)
north point and border
placement of labels and the use of colours
Direction
Title

Contour Symbols

Grid lines
Place
name

Scale
Grid lines/ Grid reference (4 and 6
figures)
•Eastings – vertical lines that run
from south to north
•Northings – horizontal lines that
run from west to east
Four-figure grid reference
• Identifies a specific grid square
• First two digits = Value of the easting on the left of the
square
• Second two digits = Value of the northing at the bottom of the
square
32

Example:
31

X
The four-figure
30
grid reference for
65 66 67
Point X is 6530.
A six-figure reference locates a 100-metre square
Chapter 1: Map Reading
1. Line scale
Scale
– E.g.

0 2 4 km

2. Word statement
– E.g. “1cm on the map equals 30km on the ground”

3. Representative fraction
– E.g. ‘1:50,000’ means that one unit on the map represents 50,000 units on the ground in
the real world.
A 1:50 000 map of Kingston Jamaica

2 cm on the map represents 1 km on the ground.


Large and small-scale maps
Kingston and Portmore: 1:250 000 Downtown Kingston: 1:10 000
Use the grid squares to help estimate
areas

On most maps, each grid square measures 1 sq km.


You can use the linear scale to measure distances

Use a ruler to measure straight-line distance. Mark off


sections using a paper strip to measure the distance along
a road.
Bearings
– Direction of a place is
expressed as an angle (in
degrees) clockwise from
the base direction (0)
Use grid lines to help measure a compass bearing

Start from 0° (which is North) and measure clockwise.


Land elevation
1. Contours
– Lines on the map joining places with the same height
– The number on a contour line indicates the height that the line represents
100
200

2. Spot heights
998
– Points on the map showing
the heights of hills
Cross-sections
• Drawing cross-sections will help you identify relief features
• How:

1. Draw a line (XY) across the map where the cross-section is to


be drawn.
2.Place a strip of paper on the line
XY. Moving from left to right, mark
each point on the edge of the
paper where XY meets a contour.

3. On another piece of paper, draw


the horizontal and vertical axes for
the cross-section. The horizontal
axis should be the length of XY.
Choose a suitable scale for the
vertical axis.
4. Place the marked edge of the paper strip
(from Step 2) along the horizontal axis of the
cross-section graph. For each mark on the
paper strip, draw a vertical line up to the
equivalent height and mark off with a dot.

5.Join all the dots with a


smooth curve to complete
the cross-section of XY.
Landscape descriptions
Relief – the distribution, height and size of
landforms; types of slopes
(concave, convex, straight, terraced/stepped); nature
and height of slopes
(steep, gentle, undulating, uneven), spurs, valleys,
plains, depressions,
ridges, plateaux, escarpments, cliffs, passes (cols,
saddles);
Drainage pattern

Trellis pattern

Dendritic pattern
Radial pattern
Describing drainage on a topographic
map
Drainage patterns
Density
Direction of flow
Quality of the drainage
Shape and size of channel
Describing land use on a topographic map

Vegetation
Agriculture
Industry
Transport networks and settlement form
and distribution.
Latitude and longitude can pinpoint any location

Lines of latitude are parallel to the Equator and


run E-W; 1° of latitude is 111 km. Lines of
longitude converge at the poles.
There are 24 time zones: E or W from 0 ° longitude

For every 15° E, it is one hour later. For each 15° W it is one hour earlier. Jamaica is 5 hours
earlier than GMT.

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