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When designing a map, we use specific pictures, signs, and colours to

represent various features. They are called symbols. Symbols are in picture

form, representing real-world things around us. For example, railway lines,

buildings, bridges, rivers, etc. These symbols help us understand maps better.

Railway Bridge Tower Building Lighthouse River

Most maps have a map legend. A key or

legend in a map tells us the meaning of

the symbols used on a map. Different
symbols are drawn in different colours.

Water bodies such as lakes, rivers, seas,

oceans are coloured in blue, land is LEGEND

coloured in yellow, mountains and deserts water bodies

are coloured in brown. Parks and forests land
mountains & deserts
are coloured in green. Major highways
forests
are coloured in red. highways

Map Key or Legend

Think &
Answer Are there any landmarks you see on your way to school? Do you notice these
landmarks when you return home? Name a landmark near your home.

Globe

We cannot see the entire Earth at one time as it is very big in
size. So, we use smaller model of the Earth. This model of the

Earth is called globe. Continents and Oceans are shown how

exactly they are on the Earth. As the globe is round in shape

we must keep turning the globe to see all the continents and

oceans. A globe, like a map, is made to a scale.
Globe
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