WorksheetsGeography Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, East, and West
Up, Down, Left, and Right
Forward, Backward, Sideways, and Diagonal
Above, Below, Inside, and Outside
What does a compass rose on a map show?
The distance between cities
The directions
The population of a country
The weather patterns
What is a continent?
A small island
A large area of land with many countries
A type of ocean
A mountain range
What is the equator?
A river that flows through Europe
An imaginary line that circles the middle of Earth
A mountain range in Asia
A type of weather pattern
What is a hemisphere?
A) A type of map
B) A direction on a compass
C) Half of the Earth, divided by the equator or prime meridian
D) A type of landform
What does a historical map show?
A) The current political boundaries
B) What a place looked like or how it was used in the past
C) The weather patterns of a region
D) The types of vegetation in an area
What are intermediate directions?
A) Directions like north and south
B) Directions like northeast and southwest, between the cardinal directions
C) Directions used only in navigation
D) Directions that are not used on maps
What does a landform map show?
A) The political boundaries of countries
B) Features like mountains, valleys, and plains on Earth's surface
C) The population density of a region
D) The climate zones of the world
What is a locator on a map?
A tool to measure distance
A small box showing where the main map is located
A symbol for mountains
A type of compass
What does a map key explain?
The distance between two points
The symbols and colors used on a map
The direction of north
The type of terrain
What is an ocean?
A small lake
A large river
A huge body of salt water
A mountain range
What does a physical map show?
Political boundaries
Natural features like rivers, mountains, and lakes
Population density
Weather patterns
What does a political map show?
Weather patterns
Boundaries like countries, states, and cities
Types of vegetation
Population density
What is the purpose of a scale on a map?
To show the direction of the wind
To measure the real distance between places
To indicate the temperature
To display the time zones
What does a symbol on a map represent?
A type of weather
A picture or shape that stands for something, like a star for a capital city
The depth of the ocean
The height of a mountain
What information does a transportation map provide?
Locations of historical sites
Types of soil
Roads, train lines, or other ways to travel from one place to another
Average rainfall
