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Coasts & Map Skills

This activity assesses competency in map skills and helps identify coastal features on a map. It covers relief representation methods like colour shading, spot heights, and contours. The task includes comparing relief on map extracts and recognizing and describing coastal landforms using contour maps.

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Coasts & Map Skills

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  1. Coasts & Map Skills L.O. – To assess competency at map skills. To identify coastal features from a map.

  2. Relief means the shape of the land. There are three ways to show relief on a map. Can you think of any?

  3. 0-10m 11-20m 21-30m 1. Colour shading 2. Spot heights 3. Contours 30 20 10

  4. How to identify features on an O.S. map…

  5. Drawing cross sections

  6. Drawing cross sections 2

  7. Draw your own cross section!

  8. Compare the relief of these two map extracts. Map B Map A

  9. Compare the relief of the two map extracts – key points. • Low land, high land – how is this shown. • Contour lines. • Hill tops, plateaus, cliffs? • Spot heights? • Triangulation pillars?

  10. Task: • Work through the map skills questions on worksheet 7.4 Recognition of coastal landforms from contour maps and then 14E describing Coastlines. • Answer in detailed sentences where appropriate using a range of geographical terms.

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