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How to Make a Map| Geography

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do people use maps for?

a)

To drive from one side of a country to another.

b)

To see the street and/or building locations.

c)

To find their way around a new city, country, or a continent.

d)

all of the above

2.

What is the purpose of a map?

a)

To identify the meaning of symbols on the map.

b)

A drawing of a place.

c)

To figure out the distance from one place to another

d)

To figure out the distance from one place to another and a map is a drawing of a place.

3.

Which map element tells us the cardinal and intermediate directions?

a)

scale

b)

title

c)

compass rose

d)

legend

4.

Items such as small shapes or drawings on a map used to represent real objects are called ____________________.

a)

latitude

b)

symbols

c)

longitude

d)

parallels

5.

Our Earth can be divided in half, either north and south or west and east. These halves are called ______________________.

a)

pie

b)

chunks

c)

hemisphere

d)

grids

6.

The center line of longitude, measured at 0 degrees is the _________________.

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

North Pole

c)

South Equator

d)

Equator

7.

The center line of latitude, measured at 0 degrees is the ________________.

a)

Legend

b)

Longitude

c)

Equator

d)

Prime Meridian

8.

What is on a map?

a)

has streets and buildings .

b)

states, countries, continents, and rivers.

c)

oceans and lands.

d)

The weather in different places.

e)

all of the above

9.

What kinds of structures are on a map?

a)

has streets and buildings .

b)

states, countries, continents, and rivers.

c)

oceans and lands.

d)

The weather in different places.

e)

all of the above

10.

What does a map of a city or town have on it?

a)

has streets and buildings .

b)

states, cities, lakes, and rivers.

c)

oceans and lands.

d)

The weather in different places.

e)

all of the above