Ask them to find two or three other cities found at roughly the same latitude. Ask the students to find a capital of a Canadian province that is closest to the longitude of Salt Lake City. Working with scale Explain scale to students. Students will be using all three maps. The scale of the map describes the relationship between a distance on the map and the corresponding distance on the ground.
Maps have different scales.
Each map in this poster and map packet pages has a different scale. Let's work with these maps to learn more about scale and what it does. First, have the students look at the legend for the shaded relief map . Ask them to locate the distance scale shown in the legend. Now find the scale of the road map .