Map skills

If you need to revise your map skills follow this link for help.
You can then try out one of the Ordnance Survey's tests on their excellent website. You can do them on directions, scale, symbols and grid references. Take a test and if you do well enough you can play a game too.
Here is a useful link to the symbols used on a 1:50,000 OS map. You will also find the symbols in the back of your text book.

Madrid project

Here are a few resources that might come in handy for your research for the Year 7 Madrid project:

Local Authority information on the economy of the city.

The physical geography of the Madrid region.

A Wikipedia article on Madrid.

Google map.

The Madrid metro.

Ordnance Survey Mapzone site

For some great map skill activities and games take a look at the Ordnance Survey Mapzone site. It is a fun way to check on your map skills. You can do activities on grid references, contours, symbols and a host of other map skills.

Atlas Work - glossary

Atlas Skills Glossary

A political map - a map dealing with man-made divisions and constructions.
A physical/relief map - a map dealing with natural features of the landscape.
A thematic map - a map showing a particular theme such as population.
Scale - the relative size of a map or model compared with the area or object in real life.
Sphere - A completely round 3 dimensional object such as the earth.
Hemisphere - half a sphere.
Equator - An imaginary line around the middle of the world. The 0º line of latitude.
Northern Hemisphere - Everywhere on the Earth that is North of the Equator.
Southern Hemisphere - Everywhere on the Earth that is South of the Equator.
Latitude - Lines that run across a map, showing the position shown North or South of the Equator.
Longitude -Lines that run vertically up and down a map, showing the position East or West of the Greenwich Meridian.
Degree - Unit used to measure latitude and longitude.
Minute - Subdivision of a degree. 60 minutes = 1 degree.
Second - Subdivision of a minute. 60 seconds = 1 minute.
Greenwich Meridian - 0º line of longitude. Also known as the Prime Meridian.
Tropic of Cancer - An imaginary line 23.5º North of the Equator.
Tropic of Capricorn - An imaginary line 23.5º South of the Equator.
Arctic Circle - An imaginary line circling the Earth at 66.5º North of the Equator.
Antarctic Circle - An imaginary line circling the Earth at 66.5º South of the Equator.
Axis - An imaginary line around which a solid object such as the Earth rotates.
Tropical zone - The area of the Earth's surface between the two Tropics.
Temperate zone - The areas of the Earth's surface between each of the Tropics and the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
Polar zones - The areas North of the Arctic Circle and South of the Antarctic Circle.
North Pole - The northerly point on the Earth's surface through which the Earth's axis passes (90º North).
South Pole - The southerly point on the Earth's surface through which the Earth's axis passes (90º South).