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Hazard Map

Hazard maps highlight areas affected by or vulnerable to natural hazards like earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, flooding, and tsunamis. Map interpretation involves analyzing a map's symbols and elements to guide navigation to a desired location or area. Important components of maps include a compass rose for orientation, a title describing the map's topic, symbols in place of words, a legend explaining symbols and colors, use of color to emphasize key information, a scale relating map distances to real distances, and grid references or borders to pinpoint locations.

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Hazard Map

Hazard maps highlight areas affected by or vulnerable to natural hazards like earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, flooding, and tsunamis. Map interpretation involves analyzing a map's symbols and elements to guide navigation to a desired location or area. Important components of maps include a compass rose for orientation, a title describing the map's topic, symbols in place of words, a legend explaining symbols and colors, use of color to emphasize key information, a scale relating map distances to real distances, and grid references or borders to pinpoint locations.

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Hazard Map

a map that highlights areas that are


affected by or are vulnerable to a
particular hazard. They are typically
created for natural hazards, such as
earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides,
flooding and tsunamis
Map Interpretation
The process of looking at the map in
order for us to be guided to a
direction or place where we wanted
to go using the different symbols or
elements of the map
Important components of a map
1. Compass rose. This will give you
the proper direction. This is also
called it “orientation.”
2. Title. It tells what the map is
about.
Important components of a map
Important components of a map
3. Symbols. These are pictures
instead of symbols.
4. Legend or Key. It explains the
meaning of symbols and colour.
5. Colour. It highlights the important
information to help interpret maps.
Important components of a map
6. Scale. It shows the proportion of
map to real life.
7. Grid Reference. These are
intersecting lines to help locate
specific places on the map. In some
maps, it is also called “border.

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