地理是一门文字与图片结合的学科,地图可以称之为是地理课程的专用语言。作为地理课程重要的教学工具,地图的重要性不言而喻,它既能够将书本知识具体形象地传递给学生,增强学生的记忆力,又能够有效地锻炼学生的逻辑思维,提高学生的分析能力。因此,在地理教学中,教师必须将培养学生识图、解图的能力作为教学重点对待,培养学生的地理空间想象能力,实现书本知识由抽象化到具象化的转变。 Geography is a combination of text and pictures, and maps can be described as geographically specific languages. As an important teaching tool of geography course, the importance of the map is self-evident. It not only can convey the book knowledge concretely to the students, enhance students’ memory ability, but also can effectively train the students’ logical thinking and improve students’ analytical ability . Therefore, in geography teaching, teachers must regard the ability of cultivating students ’knowledge and solution as the key point of teaching, cultivate students’ ability of geo-spatial imagination, and realize the change of book knowledge from abstraction to figurativeness.