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title: "Maps & Globes"
description: "4 topics in Geography, in the order they build on each other."
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# Maps & Globes

4 topics in Geography, in the order they build on each other.

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- [First Maps and Globes](https://lightmysky.com/learn/geography/first-maps-and-globes-mt_wwNUtlTw7m): Draw simple maps of familiar places (a bedroom, the route to school) and use maps, globes and photographs to describe places: finding land and water on a globe, spotting buildings and roads in a photo, saying what a place is like
- [Reading Maps: Symbols and Grids](https://lightmysky.com/learn/geography/reading-maps-symbols-and-grids-mt__Xl9qT-B20): Read and draw maps using symbols, a key, the eight compass points and four- and six-figure grid references; use atlases, globes and digital maps to locate countries and features, and use scale to judge real distances
- [Latitude, Longitude and Time Zones](https://lightmysky.com/learn/geography/latitude-longitude-and-time-zones-mt_3LBzy7Jbxv): Use the global grid: latitude and longitude, the Equator, the hemispheres, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles and the Prime Meridian; and time zones, including why day and night differ around the world
- [Thematic Maps and GIS](https://lightmysky.com/learn/geography/thematic-maps-and-gis-mt_khsAUcwLke): Make and interpret thematic maps: choropleth, dot and flow maps of population, rainfall or trade; use GIS layers and satellite imagery to spot spatial patterns and ask why they occur