Your grapefruit idea was so popular amongst your fellow teachers that they want you to branch out and do more! ideas were thrown around to create maps in various places throughout the school. ideas included in the small playground, on the basketball court, on the principal's desk, and others. in comparing relative scale size, geographers often refer to maps as small or large scale. small-scale maps have less detail of a larger area and large-scale maps have more detail of a smaller area, as shown in figure d1 for example, an overview map of a city area compared to a map of one of its neighborhoods. the overview map is relatively small scale and the neighborhood map of a small area within it would be considered a relatively large scale (see also figure d1 below) in terms of actual numbers, a map scale of 1 /500,000 is a rather large scale compared to a scale of 1 /24,000. w. 5th st downtown los angeles w. 8th st w. 6th st 110 la cañada flintridge los angeles region 7th st. w. olympic blvd burbank w.8th st. pasadena (134 griffith park 134 101 glendale w. 9th st. la. live fashion institute of design and merchandising microsoft theater 110 w. olympic blvd 101 los angeles downtown map area s. main st beverly hills staples center pico blvd 10 downtown 10 e.9th st 110 transamerica center los angeles convention (405) huntington park inglewood s. figueroa st s. flower st. s. grand ave s. olive st. hill st dway s. spring st. downtown 405 110 huntington park los angeles convention center transamerica center inglewood tos angeles intl. airport 105 los angeles el segundo compton manhattan gardena beach 91 e. 16th st 710 110 torrance 405 fashion district los angeles trade technical college 10 e. washington blvd long beach 110 rancho palos verdes pacific ocean representative fraction: 1: 24,000 or 1/24,000 point of interest representative fraction: 1: 500,000 or 1/500,000 airport written scale: 1 inch = 2000 feet 1 cm 0.25 km written scale: 1 inch = 8 miles 1 cm 5.0 km 110 interstate highway 2000 feet 1000 0 110 state highway 8 miles 4 0 graphic scale: graphic scale: 0.5 kilometers 0.25 street 0 10 kilometers s. f s. gra s. oliv s. hill st. s. broadway s. main st. s. los angeles st. e. 9th st maple ave. s. san pedro st figure d1: comparing map scale. (left) a relatively small-scale map of the greater la area in california. (right) a relatively large-scale map of a portion of downtown la. note how the right side map is completely contained within the small scale map on the left as indicated by the outlined box. you and your fellow schoolteachers made a list of the places you'd like to make maps in and around the school campus. to decide what kind of supplies you might need to get to make them, you decide to sort the locations into small, medium, and large scales first. sort the following items into their correct relative map scale category. view available hint(s) hint 1. basics for comparing map scales the key to estimating relative map scale is to ask how does the map reality match with the map's size itself. for example, the world (or a map of it) is much larger than a desk. thus, the second number in its scale will be large. if the second number is large, it has a small scale, and visa versa. reset map of a tennis court on the basketball court. a picnic-table sized map of the inside of a student's locker. school campus map on al large poster. life size map of ms. brown's chalkboard notes on a cafeteria wall. school campus map on a sticky note. world map on the principal's desk. small scale medium scale large scale