Maps of the World Physical and Political Maps Educational Videos for Kids

Hello friends welcome to new Happy learning video have you noticed that nowadays most cars have GPS and that the GPS is useful to find your way around without getting lost and have you ever thought how they managed to know where each place is well it's very easy because they have many Maps inside of them today we're going to find out what maps are and what they are used for first of all what is map map is graphic representation of all or part of the Earth's surface including the Seas and oceans in other words map is drawing that gives us information it's drawing that can show us what the shape of each territory is like how it is divided and where the islands rivers and many other things are for example Pirates used maps to know on which island they had hidden their treasure so they would not forget it but apart from that what else are maps good for well for many things to learn where each continent it's each country or each city is or to know where there's desert or maybe even where where penguins live but because there are so many different places on our planet different types of maps have been invented hydrographic Maps climate Maps historical Maps tourist Maps some of them are true works of art here you can see super old one today we're going to learn about three types of maps political maps physical maps and mute Maps political maps show us how the continents countries and cities are divided and what they are called look this is political map of Mexico this is political map of Europe and this is political map of Italy it looks like boot doesn't it the physical maps do not just show us the cities or countries but also the mountains rivers and if there are jungles lakes or deserts this River you can see here is the Amazon one of the most important rivers in the world full of piranhas and Caymans maps have been used all over the world and have series of symbols so that we can understand them for example this drawing you can see here is called compass rose and it is the symbol that shows the cardinal points it tells us where North south east and west are which are fundamental to know how to orientate ourselves another important element in maps is the scale the scale indicates how many times place is reduced to fit in drawing because of course if we were to draw its real size there wouldn't be enough paper in the world for example one: one scale drawing would be the real size well 1 to2 scale means that the object has been reduced by half this map of Spain is at scale of 1 to 3 million which means we've had to reduce Spain 3 million times so that we can see it here what good invention this scale thing is so cool forgot the mute maps are missing as they are so quiet had forgotten about them the mute maps are political or physical maps in which none of the names of anything appear so you can write everything you've learned on them and now think about it isn't it good job that there aren't mute GPS maps because otherwise we get lost all the time goodbye friends see you in the next video