Checkpoint SS Grde 3

Use the words in the word bank to help you identify the parts of the map above. Select the best answer.

• 1 legend

  2 compass rose

  3 title

  4 scale

• 1 compass rose

  2 scale

  3 title

  4 legend

• 1 title

  2 legend

  3 scale

  4 compass rose

• 1 legend

  2 scale

  3 compass rose

  4 title

What can you use to tell the distance on a map?

• compass rose

• title

• legend

• scale

Identify this line on the globe.

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

• International Date Line

Label the intermediate directions on the compass rose.

• 1 northwest

  2 northeast

  3 southwest

  4 southeast

• 1 northeast

  2 southwest

  3 southeast

  4 northwest

• 1 southeast

  2 northwest

  3 southwest

  4 northeast

• 1 northsouth

  2 eastwest

  3 southeast,

  4 northeast

Study the map. Which features are on a physical map?

• cities and rivers

• biomes and cities

• mountains and lakes

• lakes and populations

To ___ means to change how we live to suit our physical environment.

• .

• Adapt

• change

• move

Study the images. Why are these two homes built differently?

• They are located in the same climate.

• People in the desert do not like pointed roofs.

• Pointed roofs keep snow on the top of the house.

• They are built to withstand the climates that they are in.

Study the map. Information from the map supports the idea that ________.

• Texas does not have natural hazards

• the U.S. does not experience tornadoes

• there were fewer hazards in 2020 than 2019

• earthquakes mainly occur in the western U.S

Sometimes people have to evacuate a place. This means__________.

• protecting their homes

• building floodgates and dams

• leaving their homes before a hazard occurs

• boarding up windows and using sandbags

Which of the following are negative effects of building roads? Select TWO that apply.

• it destroys many trees

• chemicals wash into rivers

• decreases traffic in the area

• rainfall runoff patterns change