Map Reading

Question 0

What is a pictoral map?

Answer 0

These maps depict an area with a more artistic rather than technical style.

Question 1

What is a map?

Answer 1

A map is simply a drawing or picture (in 2D) of a landscape or area of a country.

Question 2

What is a choropleth map?

Answer 2

This map is a thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map (e.g. Population, density, income).

Question 3

What is an ordnance survey map?

Answer 3

The national mapping agency for Britain and one of the world’s largest producers of maps. These maps show places in great detail, and to scale.

Question 4

What makes a good map?

Answer 4

Scale, title, symbols, a key, direction, clarity, level of detail.

Question 5

What colour is the OS map symbol for motorway?

Answer 5

Black

Question 6

What colour is the OS map symbol for main road (A road)?

Answer 6

Pink

Question 7

What colour is the OS map symbol for secondary road (B road)?

Answer 7

Orange

Question 8

What colour is the OS map symbol for footpath?

Answer 8

Green

Question 9

What colour is the OS map symbol for railway line?

Answer 9

Black

Question 10

Does a church with a spire have a circle or a square beneath the cross?

Answer 10

Circle

Question 11

Does a church with a tower have a square or a circle beneath the cross?

Answer 11

Square

Question 12

What colour is the OS map symbol for coniferous/non deciduous forest?

Answer 12

Green

Question 13

What colour is the OS map symbol for youth hostel?

Answer 13

Pink

Question 14

What colour is the OS map symbol for bus station?

Answer 14

Pink

Question 15

What colour is the OS map symbol for golf course?

Answer 15

Black

Question 16

How many symbols are there for public house?

Answer 16

Two

Question 17

What colour is the OS map symbol for post office?

Answer 17

Black

Question 18

What colour is the OS map symbol for information centre?

Answer 18

Blue and white/white and blue

Question 19

What colour is the OS map symbol for camp site?

Answer 19

Blue

Question 20

What is relief?

Answer 20

Relief is the shape and height of the land.

Question 21

What is the layer colouring for low land?

Answer 21

Green

Question 22

What is the layer colouring for high land?

Answer 22

Brown

Question 23

What is the layer colouring for mountainous land?

Answer 23

Purple

Question 24

What is the layer colouring for the tallest points?

Answer 24

White

Question 25

What are contour lines?

Answer 25

Thin brown lines that join all the places that are the same height above sea level.

Question 26

What are contour lines used for?

Answer 26

To show relief.

Question 27

What do contour lines normally increase by?

Answer 27

10 metres

Question 28

What are spot heights?

Answer 28

Points on an OS map which are marked with an exact height in metres.

Question 29

What are spot heights shown as?

Answer 29

A dot with a number written by them.

Question 30

What are triangulation pillars?

Answer 30

Triangulation pillars show the highest point in the area.

Question 31

What are triangulation pillars shown by?

Answer 31

A blue triangle with a dot inside with the height in metres written next to it.

Question 32

Why is it difficult to show relief on a map?

Answer 32

Because maps are 2D and relief is 3D.

Question 33

What is scale?

Answer 33

Scale shows how much smaller the distance on the map compared with the distance in real life.

Question 34

What counties surround Wiltshire?

Answer 34

Berkshire
Hampshire 
Gloucestershire
Somerset
Dorset
Oxfordshire