2. Title Every map should have a title.
We need to know what the map is representing!
Just like you, a map needs a name too!
What’s my name? Who
am I?

3. Compass
A compass is a tool that helps the user know what direction he or she is headed.
On a map, a compass or a compass rose helps the user locate direction.

4. Compass Rose
The needle on a compass is magnetized to point to the Earth's magnetic north pole.
Thus with a compass, a person can roughly tell which direction they are headed.
There are four major or cardinal directions on a compass- north, south, east & west.

5. Directions The cardinal directions are north, south, east, and west.
In between are the directions northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest.
They help describe the location of places in relation to other places.

6. Scale
It is the ratio between distances on a map and actual distances

7. Scale

8. Map Legends Religions Legend
    Maps give information by using symbols.  Symbols can be figures, shapes, lines, and colors that show where places and things are on a map.  A map's legend tells you what the symbols mean. 
Religions Legend

9. Can you understand this legend?

10. Age Expectancy Around the World
Legend

11. Contour lines
Connects points of equal elevation

12. Index contour
Numbers representing elevation

13. Depression contour lines
Lines that have short lines (hachures) at right angles to the contour lines to indicate depressions (lower elevation

14. Gradient
The rate of change from place to place within a field, also called slope.