How do we use maps in our everyday lives?
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by going to diffrint places
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ReplyDeleteI agree you do sometimes use it to go to different places
Deleteyou can also look on the internet and go to google maps
we use maps to get to places
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1 way is to find your way around a place yoe have never been before.2 phisical maps show you if the area you are going to or are in are mountanis or flatland.3 to get to a place that you have not been before
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We use maps when we want to find places in the world. There are two types of maps. There are wall maps and there are maps in books. Those books are called an Atlas. Inside an atlas there are four types of maps. A physical map shows the height or elevation of the land. A thematic map shows a part of the world and the map shows a certain topic. A political map shows the political boundaries (which is basically showing were one country begins and another one ends and makes the countries different colours. A political map shows the whole world so, it can only show a certain amount of towns and cities in a single country. A regional map is a political map but giving close up views on different places in the world to show more towns and cities!!!
ReplyDeleteWhile some of us use maps but not all of us use a map for our everyday lives. However, if we were to use maps in our everyday lives it would be used for going on a boat ride and see were we are going. Another thing we would use a map for is to go on an adventure in the woods or in a park. We use maps most when we are not sure of the territory and if we do not now the area we are in and they stop us from getting lost or going round in circles and make us feel like we are in a lot of danger. This is why I think using a map is very important so that we do not get lost.
ReplyDeleteWhile some of us use maps but not all of us use a map for our everyday lives. However, if we were to use maps in our everyday lives it would be used for going on a boat ride and see were we are going. Another thing we would use a map for is to go on an adventure in the woods or in a park. We use maps most when we are not sure of the territory and if we do not now the area we are in and they stop us from getting lost or going round in circles and make us feel like we are in a lot of danger. This is why I think using a map is very important so that we do not get lost. There are lots of maps like Eric said and another one of them are a road map, political map, topographic map, geographic map, world map and the people who made maps are cartographers.
ReplyDeleteWhile some of us use maps but not all of us use a map for our everyday lives. However, if we were to use maps in our everyday lives it would be used for going on a boat ride and see were we are going. Another thing we would use a map for is to go on an adventure in the woods or in a park. We use maps most when we are not sure of the territory and if we do not now the area we are in and they stop us from getting lost or going round in circles and make us feel like we are in a lot of danger. This is why I think using a map is very important so that we do not get lost.
ReplyDeletethe last time I used a map was at Island school for the commutiy walk.they are important because what if you have a metting spot.But what he or she does not tell you where it is you have to find it on your map.
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To add on to what Azara said we used a map at island school and tom gave use a spot to find and we had to try and find it with are partner. But when we went with our partner we were looking but when eva came up to us she told us we were way of and she showed us where we were and we were way of the map and so were the boys. Then we also went to look for some things like a bath tub that had been reused and not thrown into the dump and had some Bull Frog Energy Sighs and we had to look for some house that had a roof top garden and we had to look for house that had something that is good for the environment like bikes,sky top,solar panels, and some things people have reused.
DeleteTo go and meet a place you have never been before because sometimes good is beter
ReplyDeleteThe way we use maps are to find either locations of a area or destination that you need by looking at the name, flag or the colour of the country. If you want to use a political map its used for separating a contry from another,(to show the boarders of the country)or if you want to use a physicle map its used for how high somewhere is such as a mountain or possibly a tall building.
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I think that one way people use maps in their everyday live is when their in the city and they don't know where to go. They can also can be used for finding places
ReplyDeleteWe use maps in our every day life to: travel to different places, determine boundaries and locate relationships between places by distance. Maps come in handy when you are traveling somewhere you have never been or if you are trying to find the distance from one place to another.Also you can use a map for discovering boundaries (where one place ends and one begins) for example: where water is located and where land is located. Another thing we use maps for is longitude and latitude.These are coordinates for different places in the world.A map can show different things it can show boundaries (political), elevation, hight, or land forms (physical) or different regions (regional).
ReplyDeleteWe use maps in our everyday lives when looking a map and trying to look for a street that leads to somewhere, like a place. Maps are useful resources whether your going to the mall or travelling to Florida, USA by car.
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Sometimes we use maps to look at time zones and figure out what time it would be in a different country that is in a different time zone. For example, sometimes you want to talk to somebody in a different country like in England, you need to know if you're calling them at a reasonable time of the day.
ReplyDeleteAlso, like the others have said, we use maps to navigate ourselves and to find our way in different places.
maps can help you to locate where you are in the world and if you want to go to a certain place in the world,maps can help you find it!
ReplyDeletenow when i want to go somewhere i use google to find out how to get there-maps are so advanced take a look-go to google and click on maps at the top.i challenge every one to find their own house.
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we use maps went we look at a gps and direction also sign are direction i think. you can use a compast as a map and i rember at island school we use maps for are commutiy walk. we can use map went we go travelling.we use map to get to one place to another i think.
ReplyDeleteLike many people have said, we use maps to find places so we won't be confused when we are visiting a place. My family often uses maps because we like to travel, and scouting out our route on a map will help us determine how we will get there without any delays or wrong turns that prevent us from having a safe, moderately quick trip. I definitely agree with Xaviera that maps are a big part of our everyday lives because I often see maps around my household, and, on a regular basis, someone is using them, whether it's for a birthday party or a long road trip. Also, I think that Xaviera made a really good point when she brought up how maps are very useful resources. Maps are also a great place to go when (as Henry said) you are looking to research on boundaries of countries or physical identifications such as elevation and height.
ReplyDeleteWe use maps in our everyday lives to get from your starting point to your destination. Maps may be one of the fastest ways to find directions to your destination. There are different kinds of maps for, roads, railways, the world, and etc. Maps that are in books are called atlases. In an atlas there are four different types of maps. A Physical map, a Thematic Map, a Political Map, and A Regional Map. Atlases allow you to find different things about the four types of maps. :)
ReplyDeleteWe us maps To get from our starting point to our destination by our preferred route.We use maps most when we are not sure of the area.There are different kinds of maps-for roads,railway systems,aircraft routes etc- for different types of transport.Ideally,maps stop us from getting lost or going round in circles.
ReplyDeletemaps are used in our everyday life to find directions and make it faster to get to places
ReplyDeletea device Called a GPS is connected to a satellite to show directions to different places like toronto to florida.
ReplyDeleteOnce I helped my Dad navigate his way back to our home with a map but I was reading it wrong so we got lost
ReplyDeleteWe use maps so we don't get confuesed and los when we want to go somewhere and we are unsure how to get there
ReplyDeletewe use map's when you need to get somewhere but you don't know where to go.
ReplyDeleteI used a map when me and my mom had to get to my dads work to pick him up because we were going to Ottawa that day.
ReplyDeleteWe use a mental map to get around our house and school.
ReplyDeleteA mental map is when you have an image in your head of where things are located. Your home and school are memorized because they are familiar places to us. That is why we know where to find each room.
I didn't think of that before. I probably use this type of map everyday, since we recall things from our memory where certain places were located, and when we remember where these places are, we know how to get there. It's like how I can walk home and know how to get to and from the school. (:
DeleteWe use a mental map to get around our house and school.
ReplyDeleteA mental map is when you have an image in your head of where things are located. Your home and school are memorized because they are familiar places to us. That is why we know where to find each room.
Well there are many reasons to use maps for example as many people have said we use it to find directions to somewhere they would like to get to. But also as some people said there are different maps for different kinds of maps that are used for different purposes, such as world maps, city maps, (etc). Also this has been said before but there are physical maps, thematic map, regional political maps. These maps are used for certain reasons so one example is a political map shows the governmental boundaries of countries, states, and countries, it also shows the location of major cities, and usually it would include important bodies of water. Lastly if you are always lost then you can just depend on a map because it easily shows you where you are and if you can't not read and/or understand the map then there are always different maps that will help you understand.
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I agree with Cecilia. There could be many different reasons for using a maps. You could use maps for directions, to calculate the location of cities, towns, provinces/states and continents. Also you will be able to calculate longitude and laditude.
ReplyDeleteThere are different types of maps with all different purposes. There are wall maps that show ares of land, elevation, or landforms.There are GPS witch help people get to destinations and there are globes that show the world and the longitude and latitude of different places. Also there are atlas's (a collection of maps). Each of these types of maps people use in their every day life for different reasons.
ReplyDeletethere are many diffrent useges of a map you can find a certian place to see how big or how small it is. you can use them to see how far one place is from one. you can use it to find directions from one place to another. there is many diffrent watys you can use a map
ReplyDeleteEvery year my mother and I go camping in Quebec with her friends and their relatives. And since we don't take a plane we have to drive all the way there, the way that we make it there is by using a map to and from the campground. There are also physical maps that show elevations which might help us to avoid mountains on the way.
ReplyDeleteI like lots of people use maps for different purposes, one of them is if I'm on vacation, maps help me go places, like if I wanted to got to a restaraunt in Ottawa I would use a map to help me get there. Another way I use maps is when I have an away baseball game I would need a map to help me get there. I use maps of the whole world to find where a certain country is located. Also on a thematic map you can find How large the population is in that area. A physical map will show elevations for mountains, so if you want a vacation near the mountains, you know where the mountains are.
ReplyDeleteLike Jacob said you sort have a mental map in your head for like when you go to your friends house the mental map in your head will help tell you where to go
ReplyDeleteWE use maps on jps's and there used in cars to locate where you are.
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My famliy uses a map when a place is far and we don't now how to get there so we use a map that shows the streets that we need to take to get there. We use maps to find new places even in Toronto.
ReplyDeleteDifferent people have different reasons for maps. Some people use to get polace to place for when they are stuck in the middle of nowhere, or maybe they are on they're way to something important so than they can just use a GPS to find the directions to the street it is on. Also you can use different kinds of maps there are political, thematic, physical, and regional. The regional map shows close ups of regions or of a country. A thematic map is a map the pays attention to one thing and physical + political maps are almost the same but physical will soow you more capital cities and countries. POlitical will probably only show you regions.
ReplyDeleteWell there are many types of maps people use everyday. There are GPS that people usally use in the car to get to a destenation that they probally never gone to or somewhere there not familiar with. And ther are also maps that show you around the world if you want to go on a road trip. There also is globes that show you contenents, countreys,citys and and oceans. thes are the maps people use in their daily life
ReplyDeleteMaps aren't always for big use like high ways. They can be used for indoor things too. I remember last weekend I was with my grandmother at the mall and she was looking for a Claire's to buy a gift for someone.
ReplyDeleteWe found a little map in the middle of the floor. The top showed the floors and what numbers the stores were. There were also keys/icons for things like washrooms (little people) and food courts (a fork and knife). The lower part has a list of what the store sells mainly. For example: A&F would be under "clothing" and Olie would be under "shoes".
We found Claire's under "accessories" and it said it was floor 3 number 34. We were on floor 2 so we found the escalator and went down and bought the gift at Claire's. Sometimes you need a map to do a simple thing.
Online maps are another way to find places. I remember I was looking online for middle school locations and if I clicked the name on the TDSB website, then a little map would pop up and it would show what street it was on, the postal code, and if I typed in my address, how many km the school was from my house. Maps are very good for future planning.
ReplyDeleteOn a iPod, iPhone and/or iPod touch, there's an interesting map feature where you can see where you are in the world on a green dot.
ReplyDeleteIf you type in on a search pad the name of a place or store, a blue line shows up and connects the green dot to the red dot, which represents where what you were searching is and how far it is from your location
And in the corner of the screen you can select three different map settings. I can't remember them all right now, but one of them is satellite and another is world.
We use maps in alot of different ways for-example if your travelling to a different country and you get there and you want to know a directon maps come in handy at that time and if your doing work and you need to look for maybe the first country on the east side a map can help you.
ReplyDeleteI think that Kioni posted a very good comment, especially at the beginning when she stated that ''different people have different reasons for maps ''. I think that was very effective because it started the comment off in away that got strait to the point, and she was definitely right about what she said. My family, like Adam 5's uses maps to find places in or out of the city. Usually we use regional maps, but sometimes we use thematic maps too.
ReplyDeleteAs Kioni said different people use different maps for various reasons for example tourists use regional maps to locate where thing like restaurants, schools, are.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of a different map that can be found in a atlas is a thematic map which shows the features of different things (mostly not that important things), it shows the population of a city, country, state, and/or province. Lastly its shows rainfall. Those are just one of the maps that are shown in a atlas, also we would use this kind of map when we are maybe visiting a city, country, state, or province (maybe even moving to that place then you would look at this because you might want to know about the place and also if they were to just take a vacation or visit that place.
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There are many reasons to use maps in our everyday lives. For example: To find a country, city, street, etc. You could also find what you are looking for in an atlas. People depend on maps everyday because if you don’t know how to get to your destination you could just quickly pull out your map. Also, you could easily download a map on your phone and while driving a GPS, instead of pulling out a paper map. ☺:)
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons to use maps in our everyday lives. For example: To find a country, city, street, etc. You could also find what you are looking for in an atlas. People depend on maps everyday because if you don’t know how to get to your destination you could just quickly pull out your map. Also, you could easily download a map on your phone and while driving a GPS, instead of pulling out a paper map. ☺:)
ReplyDeleteWell, we use maps in our every day life to get to different places in the world, for example places that we don't know where we are, but there are different maps with different purposes.
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Maps are one thing that you could bring to go to your destinaion, but there are also GPS's,GPS's and maps are very similer but the only difference about GPS's and maps is that GPS's are only for cars to use,but maps you could use it for cars as well or you could use it if your walking a shorter distance.
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When i go to my basketball games it's mosty out of toronto like in Hamletin and so i drive with one of my teamaltes parents cuase i don't have a car,so i could see that the parent would mostly have a GPS in the front of the car. Why they would use it is because first Hamletin is pretty far away from where i live(about an hour) and second if it was 3 games today it would probably be in different gym's, so the parent who drives my teamate (her daughter) and i would have to find the exact location where the gym is.
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Maps are also important if you're a tourist and you're trying to find a place/monument. Also like Kioni said if you're lost or looking for a place, then a GPS(Global Positioning System) will help you find your way. Most maps have different features like a title, a legend, a scale and a compass rose.
ReplyDeleteThere is a very big map above the stairs from the basement. It's there because since my family does most biking in the summer (but mostly with my dad)we would mostly bike in parks so that after we biked there we could play alttle there.Or since my daddy and my sister Iyesha and i would just bike the naightberberhood and maybe on the way back get a snack.
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There are lot's of reasons why people use maps, for example like what other people said we use it to find directions to get to our destinaion.There are many maps, such as world maps, city maps,physical maps,thematic maps,political maps and more.
ReplyDeleteIf you are very lost, then you can just look at the map and it will easily show you where you are
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As lot's of other people have said, people use a gps to find things it's kind of like a mechanical map
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kioni, we all use maps for different purposes. Some people use maps to locate places some people use maps to find the distance between places, or other people might use a map to find the different landforms of one place. People use maps for all different reasons.
ReplyDeleteMost phones these days typically have GPS's which track where you are and if you type in an address it will show you where you want to go. Now, if you have a more advanced GPS it might also show you traffic conditions which help you choose your route to get to where you need to go.
ReplyDeleteAlso you need to know what map your going to use.
ReplyDeleteWhether we use Google Maps, your map book, or your GPS to get to a place you need to get to, you are using maps. Maps show you the streets, highways, parks, almost everything that you can't see from your location. Maps usually guide you as a bird's eye view, since use as human can't fly and see all streets. I've used maps many times but one example of when I used maps was when my auntie from Florida came over to vist, we wanted to go to the CN Tower restaurant and since we were going on the TTC, we looked at the map on the wall that showed the streets nearby the station, it really helped us.
ReplyDeleteif you are going to plan a vacation you need a map to 1 know were to go and 2 were tou want to go
ReplyDeleteI use a map when I am on the subway and need to now how many stops until my stop.
ReplyDeletei agree with adam5 because if you are not checking you might not know and if it is your first time you may get lost
Deletei agree with adam because if you are not checking often you may get lost and not know the way back
DeleteI also agree because if not you might get off as far away from your destanation as posibul and be late or miss somthing inmportant. also you ay not know exactily were your getting off in the first place and rely on the map.
DeleteI create a map of my classroom setup, including where students sit so that when and if I am absent, the supply teacher knows where things are located in the classroom AND students don't begin to 'conveniently' switch their seats around :o)
ReplyDeleteYou can actually use maps to locate anywhere known like a gps can locate you all the way to the USA and if your lost on the subway train
ReplyDeleteSorry I pressed publish too early.Continueing on, subways can also use maps to locate the subways stations .This is an example of you probably use a map to locate almost anywhere.
ReplyDeleteWe use maps on road trips so we know were to go!
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If your in a shoping mall some times you don't know were your going so you find a map that shows were you are
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I use maps when i am going to new places and sometimes when i am on a road trip
ReplyDeleteWe use maps in our everyday lives to get from place to place in a car, walking, airplane ect.... There are many types of maps for example physical, Aeronautical chart, Cartogram, City map, Contour map, Dymaxion map, Estate map, Fantasy map, Floor plan, Geologic map, Map design, Nautical chart, Pictorial maps, Road map, atlas, Street map, Thematic map, Transit map, Topographic map, World map.
ReplyDeletethe things that you can identify a map is that there is a legend, compass rose, physical legend, Title, Direction, Scale, Legend, Author/creator ,labels ,date of creation ,sources of information ,border ,fringing (around water
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we use maps in our every day lives by using g.p.s.es to be leading us to our destination in our car
ReplyDeleteAlso places you can find many different types of maps are in atlas, phones (if you have a up to date phone), GPS, google maps, and many more. Also from other people perspective they think that using a map is was easier then reading for a paper where there are directions written out. Other reasons is that it is to show ownership and property, another is to show public and international boundaries and a very common one that everyone says is to find out how to get from where we are to where we want to go. Those are some of the reasons that we use maps in our everyday life.
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We use maps when travelling on the TTC subway trains. In every train they have a map of all of the stations that they go through, I look on the map everytime when we go on the sunway train, I like seeing the maps of all the stations, and it's colored really nicely. :D
ReplyDeleteWe use maps in museums or or places like a museum so you can find the exibits you want to go to
ReplyDeletewe use maps to help navigate a place to see their population or how much water they have
ReplyDeletewe can use maps when researching things like clean water in the world or population in the world. we used maps in class when we were talking about the HDI.
ReplyDeleteYou can also you maps to locate places you want to go for vacation like california or hawaii or places like that.
ReplyDeletewhen i was waching tv I discovered a new why of using a map, I was waching the big bang theory and a mane character (shealden) was looking for the safest place to live and used a map to check places off on the map. he was using the map as a check list.
ReplyDeleteYou can also use maps to locate the capital City is in any Country for example if you go to the map of Manitoba in an atlas you'll find that capital City is Winnipeg another example is if you go to the map of the USA in an atlas you'll find that the capital City is Washington D.C .
ReplyDeleteWe use GPS systems in are cars to find how long it will take to get to the place you want to go to and it will show you what roads to travel on and where you are
ReplyDeletewe use maps for directions to different places for example a store my family used a map because we needed directions to get to a store
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we use maps when we are traveling in a location that we are not sure of were a shop or place is
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I would use the ttc map for whan I am on the bus street car or subway because then I could find out when and where I need to get off to get to my destanation.
ReplyDeletePeople use google street view to find a certain store if they knew what street it was on. For example, if I wanted to find a dollar store on St. Clair west I could type in that street name and scroll through the street using extremely zoomed in satellite photos.
ReplyDeleteThe reason we use maps are usually because we do not know where to go from the starting point or you do not even know where you are. A map is like a manual G.P.S becase a map does not guide you, it gives you the location or destination.
ReplyDeletewe use maps to mark down were are ancestors lived.
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On birthday invitations there may be a map to help get to where the birthday is
ReplyDeleteHow do you use a map to mark down were are ancestors lived. I just don't under stand how you can mark down were are ancestors use to live.
ReplyDeleteyou can use maps to locate boundaries in games, you can use them for cities, you can use them for states,you can use them for countries, you can use them for subways, you can use them to locate a friends house, and you can use them for vacations.
ReplyDeleteyou can use maps to locate boundaries in games, you can use them for cities, you can use them for states,you can use them for countries, you can use them for subways, you can use them to locate a friends house, and you can use them for vacations.
ReplyDeleteI use maps to help me locate where my ancestors used to live so then i can probably visit the city/country that they used to live in.
ReplyDeletethere was a map we used when trying to find where to go for the youth conference
ReplyDeleteLess people now a days use maps because there are gps in our daily lives.
ReplyDeleteI use maps to help me find where my ancestors used to live so later on I can visit that city/country later on.
ReplyDeletewe can use maps to show all around the world such as countries and not only to show directions
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Google Maps as I said in Wall Wisher is a great service that helps you locate your starting destination and helps you find directions to your ending destination for example: Getting from Toronto Ontario, CA to Los Angelos California, US. Google Maps will locate that to help you find directions. Also, you can view your destination from different maps like Satellite, Hybrid etc. You may also print your map, have google maps talk the directions to you etc. You can also search house locations, store locations etc. As you can see, google maps is an excellent way of going from destination to destination, it is like an electronic map. You can also have it on your phones, iPads etc.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a device/service by Google called Google Earth. You type your address and a small green dot will appear like Becky said showing where you are in the world and also, you have the option of seeing your location, like a picture and you may see it from a different angle. You can also locate friends, families, close friends etc. locations too!
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