Map Skills Reflection| What I Find Easy and Hard and Why I Find Basic Map Skills Important!

The basic map skills we reviewed where all terms that we already learned, however they were not all easy. What I found easy about basic map skills is understanding cardinal directions, knowing where each continents and ocean is located on a map, knowing the name of each continent and ocean, and also I found using certain map keys easy. I found these terms easy because I remember learning them in the past and I understood them, so reviewing these map skills was not hard. I found using coordinates more difficult because I had trouble remembering this, and it was hard for me to find the exact coordinates and remember latitude and longitude lines. This was more difficult because I didn’t remember this when I learned it the first time. I also struggled with using the keys that were based off of distance because I did not understand that the amount of centimeters or inches related to the number of miles or kilometers on the map, and this was hard for me to understand at first until I got the hang of it. Basic map skills are necessary because they are the building blocks of learning more about geography.  You need to know cardinal directions if you are ever lost or are navigating, you need to know where you are and how to find your location on a map, how to read a key to figure out how many miles away you are from a certain location, and all the basic map skills will teach you these.