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OXFORD PRIMARY ATLAS FOR SOUTH AFRICA
OUP SA FREE Teacher’s Resource Book available to download at
www.oxford.co.za
This atlas, suitable for Grades 4 to 7: provides comprehensive coverage of all CAPS themes is accessible and colourful has clearly-labelled maps which are easy to read has a step-by-step map skills section which includes: explanations of latitude and longitude scale and direction
includes:
clear grid references to make it
photographs and illustrations to support understanding.
Oxford Primary Atlas for South Africa Oxford Primêre Atlas vir Suid-Afrika
978 0 19 907037 4 978 0 19 907038 1
Also available in Afrikaans
WALL MAPS
OUP SA These Wall Maps: consist of six full-colour posters offering physical and political maps of: South Africa
Africa the world
are available in: English and Afrikaans as singles or in packs of six A1-sized posters.
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Also available in Afrikaans
RESOURCES
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How to use maps 7 Distance and scale
Maps are much smaller than the places they represent. Maps are drawn to scale. This means that the map is drawn an exact number of times smaller than the area on the ground.
The scale of a map is the
scale shown on the map of Turtle Island below
Island below. North Noordwyk W E S
relationship between the distance represented on the map and the same distance on the ground. There are three different types of e sho on the p of T e
1. A word scale tells you how much 1 centimetre on the map represents on the ground. The word scale on the map below is “1 centimetre on the map measures 1 kilometre on the ground”.
2. A line scale is a numbered line showing how many metres or kilometres are represented by the distance that you have measured.
3. A ratio scale shows scale as numbers. The ratio for the map of Turtle Island is 1:100 000.
Use the line scale to work out how far the lighthouse is from the airport:
1. Use your ruler to measure the distance of the road between the lighthouse and the airport.
2. Write down the distance. (You should get 4 centimetres.)
3. Position the ruler next to the line scale. The distance measured on the map matches the 4 kilometre mark on the line scale. The distance between the lighthouse and the airport is therefore 4 km (4 × 1 = 4).
Use the word scale to work out how far the lighthouse is from the airport:
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1. According to the word scale, 1 centimetre on the map
Baboon Cliff
represents 1 kilometre on the ground.
2. This means 4 centimetres on the map represents 4 × 1 kilometres (4 × 1 = 4).
3. The distance between the lighthouse and the airport is therefore 4 km.
KEY
Elangeni Station
bus stop train station hotel school clinic
mosque church hut
Danger Beach
Whale Bay
A map of Turtle Island
01 234 km
One centimetre on the map represents 1 kilometre on the ground, or 1 cm represents 1 km, or 1:100 000.
nd Whale Bay on the map of Turtle Island on the left. Then look back at the map of Whale Bay on page 6. The map on this page is drawn to a smaller scale than the map on page 6. This is why you can see a larger area, but with less detail.
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lighthouse
g thouse airfield main road road
hiking trail plantation wetland railway line river
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Klipspringer Station
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