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Scale and Distance

Aims for today’s lesson:1.To know and understand what scale is.2.To know the three types of scale. 3.To know how to calculate distance using scale.

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What’s wrong with these images?

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Maps have to be drawn _____ than real life to fit on a piece of paper. How much smaller they are is shown by the ______. This shows you the _____ distance between places.

real smaller scale

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How can we show it? OWordsORatioOLine/bar

Relationship between distance on a map or plan and distance in real life.

This means 1cm on the map = 10cm on the ground. On OS maps the scale is often 1:25 000.

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