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Continents Oceans and Map Skills

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which features make maps easier to read?
a)
a title
b)
a compass rose
c)
symbols and a map key
d)
all of these features
2.
What is this symbol?
a)
scale
b)
key
c)
compass rose
d)
map
3.
What does a compass rose show you?
a)
The map scale
b)
Cardinal and intermediate directions
c)
What a symbol stands for
d)
The length of the road
4.
What do we call directions that come between the cardinal directions?
a)
Primary Directions
b)
Intermediate Directions
c)
Middle Directions
d)
Subdirections
5.
What direction is indicated by the number 7?
a)
northeast
b)
northwest
c)
southeast
d)
southwest
6.
What are the intermediate directions?
a)
North and South only
b)
Northeast and Southeast only
c)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest
d)
North, South, East, and West
7.
Where would you look on a map to find what the symbols mean?
a)
The map key or legend
b)
The intermediate directions
c)
The cardinal directions
d)
The map symbols
8.
How many continents are on the planet Earth?
a)
7
b)
4
c)
5
d)
10
9.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

Africa

b)

Antarctica

c)

Australia

d)

Asia

10.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

South America

b)

Europe

c)

Asia

d)

North America

11.

What continent is coloured orange?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

North America

12.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

North America

b)

Australia

c)

South America

d)

Antarctica

13.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

Africa

b)

Asia

c)

Australia

d)

South America

14.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

Australia

b)

Europe

c)

Antarctica

d)

Asia

15.

What continent is coloured red?

a)

Australia

b)

Africa

c)

Antarctica

d)

Asia

16.
What continent do you live on?
a)
South America
b)
Europe
c)
Africa
d)
North America
17.

What country do you live in?

a)

North America

b)

Canada

c)

Alberta

d)

Countries don't exist, ma'am.

18.
What ocean does the star show?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Arctic Ocean
c)
Indian Ocean
d)
Pacific Ocean
19.
What ocean does the star show?
a)
Southern Ocean
b)
Pacific Ocean
c)
Indian Ocean
d)
Atlantic Ocean
20.
What ocean does the star show?
a)
Indian Ocean
b)
Arctic  Ocean
c)
Southern Ocean
d)
Atlantic Ocean
21.
What ocean does the star show?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Pacific Ocean
c)
Indian Ocean
d)
Arctic Ocean
22.
What ocean does the star show?
a)
Southern  Ocean
b)
Indian Ocean
c)
Arctic Ocean
d)
Pacific Ocean
23.

Which ocean is closest to you (think about where our province is in Canada)?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Arctic Ocean

d)

Indian Ocean

24.
What is half of a sphere called?
a)
Halfsphere
b)
Semisphere
c)
Hemisphere
d)
Half circle
25.
Which imaginary line divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Equator
c)
Axis
d)
North Pole
26.
Which imaginary line divides the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Equator
c)
Axis
d)
North Pole
27.
On which two hemispheres do we live?
a)
Northern and Eastern
b)
Eastern and Southern
c)
Western and Southern
d)
Northern and Western
28.

If you go south of Yukon, what is the first province you will get to?

a)

The United States

b)

The North Pole

c)

British Columbia

d)

Alberta

29.

Ontario is _________ of Nunavut.

a)

Northwest

b)

North

c)

Southeast

d)

South

30.

What province is directly west of Alberta?

a)

There are no provinces west of Alberta

b)

Saskatchewan

c)

Victoria

d)

British Columbia

31.

What provinces is east of Alberta?

a)

British Columbia

b)

Saskatchewan

c)

Alberta

d)

There are no provinces east of Alberta

32.
If you traveled from Africa to Europe, in which direction would you be traveling?
a)
north
b)
south
c)
east
d)
west
33.
If you traveled from North America to Europe, in which direction would you be traveling?
a)
north
b)
south
c)
east
d)
west
34.
If you traveled from Europe to Australia, in which direction would you be traveling?
a)
northeast
b)
southeast
c)
northwest
d)
southwest
35.

North America is the...

a)

Provinces that we live in.

b)

Country that we live in.

c)

Continent that we live on.

d)

Only apart of the United States of America.

36.

Canada is...

a)

The country that we live in.

b)

The continent that we live on.

c)

The province that we live in.

d)

In the United States of America.

37.

Alberta is...

a)

The country that we live in.

b)

The continent that we live on.

c)

The province that we live in.

d)

Named after Prince Albert.

38.

Look at the continents of the world. Canada is in the...

a)

Northern and Western Hemisphere

b)

Southern and Western Hemisphere

c)

Southern and Eastern Hemisphere

d)

Northern and Eastern Hemisphere

39.

What is a Line of Latitude?

a)

A line that goes North to South (up and down).

b)

A line that goes East to West (side to side).

40.

What is a Line of Longitude?

a)

A line that goes North to South (up and down)

b)

A line that goes East to West (side to side)