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Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- atlas - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
An atlas is a bound collection of maps. Atlases vary in size and in the information presented. Some travelers carry small atlases that give road and street directions. Other atlases are huge, very detailed books that need a reading stand for support. A general reference atlas focuses on place locations. A special-subject atlas deals with a single subject, such as agriculture or climate.
- atlas - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
An atlas is a collection of maps or charts, usually bound together. Atlases often contain pictures, tabular data, facts about areas, and indexes of place-names keyed to coordinates of latitude and longitude or to a locational grid with numbers and letters along the sides of maps.