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Map Skills

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The four (4) features on a map

a)

Title, direction, US Map, and Caribbean Map

b)

Title, Key, scale, and direction

c)

Key, scale, title, flags

d)

Stars, key, direction, title

2.

Which is a model of the earth?

a)

Hemisphere

b)

Basketball

c)

Globe

d)

Geography

3.

Which of the following is the world's smallest ocean?

a)

The Atlantic

b)

The African

c)

The pacific

d)

The Arctic

4.

What do we call the largest areas of land?

a)

Islands

b)

Peninsulas

c)

Countries

d)

Continents

5.

Which of these might be used to compare the number of people living in five cities?

a)

A graph

b)

A globe

c)

A physical map

d)

A compass rose

6.

A compass rose is placed on a map in order to show

a)

Elevation

b)

Scale

c)

Direction

d)

Climate

7.

Lines of longitude are:

a)

Meet at the poles

b)

Run parallel to the equator

c)

Include the Tropic of Cancer

d)

Divide the globe into two hemispheres

8.

The line which seperates the globe into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere is called

a)

The Greenwich Meridian

b)

The Equator

c)

The Tropic of Cancer

d)

The Arctic Circle

9.

The Prime or Greenwich Meridian are

a)

Seperates the globe into the northern and southern hemisphere

b)

Seperates the globe into the eastern and western hemisphere

c)

Runs parallel to the equator

d)

Is a line of longitude

10.

Which of these is a continent?

a)

Alaska

b)

The Arctic

c)

South Africa

d)

Asia

11.

Which of these divides the earth in half?

a)

Compass rose

b)

South Pole

c)

Equator

d)

Border

12.

To tell how far a place is from the equator, maps use

a)

Boundary lines

b)

Lines of latitude

c)

Lines of longitude

d)

Time lines

13.

Which does the Prime Meridian cross?

a)

Cairo, Eqypt

b)

Yellowstone National Park

c)

New Orleans, Louisiana

d)

Greenwich, England

14.

The capital of St. Maarten is:

a)

Havana

b)

Miami

c)

Port-au-Prince

d)

Philipsburg

15.

The direction NNW lies halfway between:

a)

North and West

b)

North-west and west

c)

North and north-west

d)

North and north-east

16.

The direction SE lies between

a)

South-south-east and east-south-east

b)

North and east

c)

South and West

d)

South-south-east and South

17.

Lines of latitude are:

a)

Parallel lines circling the earth in an east-west direction

b)

Parallel lines circling the earth from pole to pole

c)

Date lines

d)

Lines dividing the west from the east

18.

The equator and the prime meridian are used to create the

a)

Four Hemisphere

b)

Regions

c)

Continents

d)

Oceans

19.

How many oceans are there?

a)

4

b)

3

c)

6

d)

5

20.

How many continents are there?

a)

5

b)

6

c)

8

d)

7