Compass
Used with your map’s scale to determine distances.
What is a ruler?
Blossom, Buttercup, Bubbles.
What is Powerpuff Girls?
Small pictures that stand for different features on a map.
What are symbols?
Step #1 when finding a bearing?
What is lay baseplate from one point to the next?
Capitol of Texas.
What is Austin?
Clear, so you can see the map below it, it has at least one straight edge for taking bearings and transferring them to your map.
What is a baseplate?
Gil.
What is Bubbleguppies?
The ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.
What is a scale?
Step #2 when finding a bearing.
What is turn housing so that "N" is north on the map?
Number Tom Brady wears.
What is 12?
Also called the “azimuth ring,” this outer circle has 360 degree markings.
What is a rotating bezel?
Shaggy, Velma, Fred.
What is Scooby-Doo?
The ‘wiggly brown lines’ on a map are contours. Contours are a way of showing the shape of the land
What are contours?
Step #3 when finding a bearing.
What is turn your body with the compass until the magnetic needle is aligned with the N on the dial?
School Mr. Williams teaches at.
What is Grace Abbott?
Located directly above the bezel, it’s also called a “read bearing here” mark.
What is an index line?
Marshall.
Where you can find the symbols, scale, and contours on a map.
What is a legend?
Answer to #1 on your worksheet.
What is 210 degrees?
Largest land mammal.
What is an elephant?
The end that always points to the magnetic pole is usually colored red or white.
What is a magnetized needle?
Dexter and Dee Dee.
What is Dexter's Laboratory?
Land that has no contours.
What is flat land?
Answer to #3 on your worksheet.
What is 150 degrees?
Sport that uses something called a wicket.
What is cricket?