WorksheetsWeek Two Quiz: Maps and Physical Features
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 5hrs 15mins
All About Maps: What is another name for a map legend?
Map Symbol
Map direction
Map Key
Table of contents
All About Maps: What is the purpose of a map scale?
To weigh the political power of the states
To show where things are located on the map
Compare the distance measured on the map to the actual distance on Earth
To show how large the map is
All About Maps: What do map legends help determine?
Meanings of symbols or colors that represent graphic features.
Orientation or direction map should be read.
Relationship of the actual distance to map distance.
How efficient the map quality is.
All About Maps: Directions can be shown using a symbol with arrows pointing in all four cardinal directions. What is this symbol called?
Compass Rose
Intermediate Directions
Astrolabe
North arrow
All About Maps: Lines that run north and south and measure distances in degrees from the Prime Meridian are called lines of ________________.
Longitude
Latitude
Equators
Scale
All About Maps: Lines that run west and east and measure distances in degrees from the Equator are called lines of ________________.
Longitude
Latitude
Tropic of Cancer
Arctic Circle
All About Maps: The center line of latitude, measured at 0 degrees is the ________________.
Prime Meridian
Tropic of Capricorn
International Date Line
Equator
All About Maps: The title of a map tells us what?
What the map is about (the topic of the map).
The distance the map covers.
The name of the cartographer.
DOGSTAILS: This is the text identifying when the map was made and/or updated.
Orientation
Date
Grid
Scale
DOGSTAILS: A north arrow is a symbol indicating the direction in which north lies; a compass rose is a symbol indicating the cardinal directions (N, S, E, W).
Date
Grid
Scale
Orientation
DOGSTAILS: Text identifying where the map’s information comes from.
Author
Index
Legend
Source
DOGSTAILS: Text identifying the cartographer or organization responsible for making the map
Author
Date
Text
Scale
The acronym used to remember the most common map elements.
(a)
DOGSTAILS: The box labeled "Layer 1" is an example of what?
Source
Scale
Legend
Orientation
Grid
Name that physical feature: A large natural stream of water that empties into an ocean, sea or lake.
River
Lake
Sea
Ocean
Name that physical feature: A natural elevation of the earth that is higher than a hill.
hill
mountain
plain
peninsula
Name that physical feature: A huge body of saltwater. Five of these cover about 75% of the earth.
lakes
seas
oceans
ponds
Name that physical feature: A large flat land area with very few trees.
Plains
Peninsula
Mesa
Plateau
The final questions: A geographer who makes maps:
Cartographer
Distortion
Projection
The final questions: A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.
Map Projection
Distortion
The final questions: The change in shape, size, or location of a place when shown on a map.
Map Projection
Distortion
