What Is a Map Legend?

Mission Brief #5

🎯 Your mission

Navigate the world like an explorer with a question.

⚡ The twist

Where you live shapes how you live — more than you think.

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A globe is a round model of Earth. It shows all the continents and oceans. A globe is more accurate than a flat map because Earth is round.

Key facts

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Then & Now

🌍 The geography you'll learn is the same one your phone's GPS is using right now.

Question 1 of 2

Which direction is usually at the top of a map?

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Question 2 of 2

What does a map show?

How sure?😐 maybe

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🌍 Why this still matters: Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

🏆 Try this week: Find where everything in your fridge came from this week.

👨‍👩‍👧 At dinner: “If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?”

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