Summary

Mapping your environment is a way of interacting with your environment. An environment is a very big place but through mapping, it is made small and very easy to stay in it.

A Compass is an instrument used to show directions. Landmarks are features which help us to identify places easily.

Bearings can also be a direction or position in relation to a fixed point measured in degree.

A Map is a drawing or representation of the whole part of the earth’s surface that is usually drawn to scale on a flat surface material.

A sketch map is a rough drawing of an area.

A scale of a map is how much an area has been reduced in order to show it on a map.

There are three types
of scales. They are: Statement scale, linear scale and Representative fraction.