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PLANS AND MAPS
1. Planet Earth and its representation
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Topographic map of Sierra de Guadarrama with a scale of 1:25000, by Editorial Alpina (adapted)
World map with a scale of 1: 40000000 (detail of Europe)
Main road
Local road
Asphalt track
Main track
Secondary track
Dangerous track
Footpath
Trail
Railway
Chairlift Ski station
Construction
Telecommunications tower
Water pipe
Regional border
Municipal border
National park border
Contour line
Peak Survey point
Car park Railway station
Hotel Shelter Hut
Spring Church
Long distance footpath
Short distance footpath
Forest
Scrub and meadows
Farmland and rocks
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Brussels
Warsaw
Madrid
Lisbon
Ibiza
Majorca
Minorca
Sardinia
Corsica
Sicily
Paris
London
Hamburg
Berlin
Amsterdam
Cologne
Munich
Prage
Vienna
Turin
Milan
Rome
Naples
Belgrade
Sofia
Athens
Crete
Bucharest
Budapest
Minsk
Ankara
Smyrna
Baku
Tbilisi
Yerevan
Odessa
Kiev
Kharkov
Zaporozhie
Donetsk
Volgograde
Samara
Algiers
Rostov
Istambul
BARCELONA
Seville
Valencia
Zaragoza
Marseille
Liverpool
Dublin
Francfort
Palermo
Zagreb
Tirana
Skopje
Dresden
Krakow
Gomel
Kishinov
Adana
Lvov
Tula
Saratov
Ashtrakan
Ulianovsk
Tunis
Aleppo
S PA I N
PORTUGAL
ANDORRA
UNITED
KINGDOM
IRELAND
BELGIUM
SWITZERLAND
THE
NETHERLANDS
LUXEMBOURG
CZECH REPUBLIC
AUSTRIA
VATICAN
G E R MA N Y
F R A N C E
SLOVENIA
CROATIA
BOSNIA-
HERZEGOVINA SERBIA
ALBANIA
MACEDONIA
BULGARIA
GREECE
MALTA
R UMA N I A
HUNGARY
MOLDAVIA
POLAND
BELARUS
I TA LY
SAN
MARINO
T U R K E Y
GEORGIA
AZERBAIJAN
ARMENIA
U K R A I N E
TUNISIA
SYRIA
K A Z A J S TÁ N
MONTENEGRO
ALGERIA
SLOVAKIA
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Ebro
Po
Danube
Rhine
Loire
Volga
Bay of
Biscay
Tyrrhenian
Sea
Ionian
Sea
Agean
Sea
Adriatic Sea
BLACK SEA
Sea of
Azov
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Understand
22.
Can you classify these maps according to
their scale?
a)
A map of Cuenca, with a scale of 1:50 000.
b)
Amap of Spain, with a scale of 1:1 000 000.
c)
A map of Extremadura, with a scale of
1:200000.
23.
On a map with a scale of 1:100000, the
distance between two points is 10 cm.
Calculate the real distance.
Analyse
24.
Look at the street map of Madrid. Following a straight line,
calculate the distance between the Prado Museum and the
Reina Sofía Museum.
25.
Look at the map of the Sierra de Guadarrama.
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Name the peaks and their heights.
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Measure the distance between Alto del Telégrafo and Alto de
las Guarramillas.
26.
Look at the map of Europe and calculate the distance
between Madrid and Paris and between Paris and Kiev.
