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Beginning of the Year Map Skills

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the geographical feature labeled with a letter A?

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Rio Grande River

c)

Great Lakes

d)

James River

2.

What is the geographical feature labeled with a C?

a)

James River

b)

Chesapeake Bay

c)

Rio Grande River

d)

Mississippi River

3.

What is the name of the purple continent?

a)

North America

b)

South America

c)

Africa

d)

Europe

4.

What is the name of the green continent?

a)

South America

b)

North America

c)

Australia

d)

Europe

5.

What is the name of the brown continent?

a)

Antarctica

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

South America

6.

What is the name of the yellow continent?

a)

Africa

b)

Europe

c)

Australia

d)

Asia

7.

What is the name of the blue continent?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Antarctica

d)

Australia

8.

How many continents and oceans are there in the world?

a)

7 continents and 4 oceans

b)

8 continents and 4 oceans

c)

7 continents and 5 oceans

d)

8 contents and 5 oceans

9.
What is this object known as?
a)
map symbol
b)
map key
c)
map scale
d)
compass rose
10.

What are the lines that go from north to south called?

a)

Longitude Lines

b)

Latitude Lines

c)

Prime Meridians

d)

Equators

11.

What are the lines that run from east to west called?

a)

Longitude Lines

b)

Equators

c)

Prime Meridians

d)

Latitude Lines

12.

The symbols shown are examples of items that would be found on a ______________________ of a map.

a)

Legend

b)

Compass Rose

c)

Scale

d)

Border

13.

What does the scale on a map show?

a)

The conversion of distance or size to the size of the map.

b)

How many people live in a country.

c)

The difference between kilometers and millimeters.

d)

The way to read a ruler.

14.

What type of map is shown?

a)

Population Map

b)

Climate Map

c)

Physical Map

d)

Political Map

15.

What type of map is shown?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Climate Map

d)

Population Map

16.

What are the names of the three regions of Tennessee?

a)

Western, Middle, Eastern

b)

Memphis Delta, Middle Basin, Eastern Mountains

c)

Northwestern, Southern, and Eastern

d)

Delta, Plateau, Plains