Map reading puzzles Lesson 49 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 To read a map well you combine three things: the directions, the scale and the legend. 1 Directions turn with you: if you face north, east is on your right and west on your left; if you turn around to face south, east is now on your left. 2 The scale turns map centimetres into real distances: on a map where 1 centimetre is 2 kilometres, a path of 5 centimetres is 10 kilometres; walking about 4 kilometres an hour, that takes two and a half hours. 3 The Sun helps when there is no compass: it rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west; in the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland it stands in the south at midday, so at noon your shadow points north, but in Australia and New Zealand the midday Sun is in the north and the shadow points south. 4 Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows wherever the bark stays shady and damp; the Sun, the stars and a compass are far more reliable. 5 If you face north, east is on your right, west on your left and south behind you. 6 If you face south, east is on your left and west on your right. 7 To find a real distance, multiply the map distance in centimetres by the distance one centimetre stands for. 8 The Sun rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west. 9 In the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland the Sun is in the south at midday, so shadows at noon point north. 11 The North Star, Polaris, shows the direction of north at night in the Northern Hemisphere. 12 Moss does not grow only on the north side of trees, so it is not a reliable guide. 13 Rivers always flow from higher land to lower land, so a river flows away from the mountains. 14 A larger scale, such as 1 centimetre to 10 metres, shows a small area in great detail. 15 Turning a quarter of a full turn to the right changes north to east, east to south, south to west and west to north. ← previous Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long agonext → Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts↑ back to World This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/49-map-puzzles/