Social Studies - Map Skills

What kind of map shows the natural features of an area?

• Population

• Political

• World

• Physical

Which set contains only highlands?

• valley, mountain, plain

• plain, hill, mountain

• plateau, mountain, hill

• valley, hill, mountain

In the diagram below, which landform is identified by the arrow?

(a)  

The natural breaking down of rocks, soil and minerals into sediments is called _______________.

• Weathering

• Sedimentation

• Erosion

• deposition

Deforestation may cause all the following EXCEPT

• increase rainfall

• a)   loss of natural habitat

• a)   excess carbon dioxide in the air

• soil erosion

The most important line that runs from east to west is called_______?

• Tropic of cancer

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

The 0° line of longitude is called (a)   ? 

The ______________ is located in the Southern hemisphere. 

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Antartic Circle

I am a line that is neither in the northern nor southern hemisphere.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• South Pole

Latitude and longitude lines are imaginary lines. Which is not a line of latitude?

Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Greenwich Meridian

(a)