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Parts of a Map

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a map?

a)

A 2D way of showing the 3D earth

b)

a round circle

c)

The object used to show directions

d)

The imaginary lines that run through earth

2.

What does a map title do?

a)

Explain what the symbols on the map means

b)

Shows the distance between two locations on a map

c)

Tell us what the map will be about

d)

Show the cardinal directions

3.

What does a compass rose tell us?

a)

What the map is about

b)

How far away things are on the map from each other

c)

What the symbols on the map means

d)

The four cardinal directions (North, South, East, West)

4.

What does a map key tell us?

a)

What the map is about

b)

the four main directions

c)

What the symbols, pictures, and colors on the map mean

d)

The distance between two locations on the map

5.

What does the bar scale tell us?

a)

The distance between two locations on the map

b)

What the picture and symbols mean

c)

the four main directions

d)

what the map is about

6.

True or False: Lines of Latitude are imaginary lines that measure the distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator

a)

True

b)

False

7.

True or False: Lines of Longitude are imaginary lines that measure the distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which is an important line of Longitude

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

North Pole

d)

South Pole

9.

Which is an important line of Latitude?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

South Pole

c)

North Pole

d)

Equator

10.

What does a physical map show?

a)

Certain information about a place or region. Shows one type of information

b)

The features people have created, such as cities or country borders

c)

The landforms and bodies of water found in certain areas

11.

What does a political map show?

a)

Certain information about a location

b)

landforms and bodies of water

c)

features that people have created such as cities and country borders

12.

What does a thematic/speciality map show?

a)

Certain information about a place or region. It shows one specific type of information

b)

Features that people have created such as cities and country borders

c)

landforms and bodies of water

13.

Match the following

a)

Map Title

1.

Tell us what the map is about

b)

Compass Rose

2.

Shows us the four cardinal directions

c)

Bar Scale

3.

Tells us the distance between two locations on a map

d)

Lines of Latitude and Longitude

4.

imaginary lines around earth that help us measure it

e)

Map Key

5.

Tells us what the difference symbols, pictures and colors mean/represent