Map Skills

Basic Map Skills are mostly easy but very important when reading and understanding a map. I find the easiest part of Basic Map Skills are map keys because you just have to match up colors and shapes from the map key onto the map, they are usually pretty simple and easy to look at. But sometimes Basic Map Skills are difficult. I struggled with scale because, you have to measure the scale first and then measuring the right distance of what you’re measuring is tough. Then, matching up the numbers and miles is more complicated. Basic Map skills are important because they help you read a map and without the basics you can’t get into more complicated map skills. Some examples of geography are mountains, rainforests, and deserts. These are all geological features and if you look at a map the only way you’ll understand where they are is if there is a key and/or labels which both have to do with basic map skills. You wouldn’t be able to understand maps without Basic Map Skills!