Map skills

Question 1

What is a grid?

Answer 1

It is the pattern made by straight lines that cross one another at right angles.

Question 2

What is an Index?

Answer 2

List of names in alphabetical order and their location.

Question 3

What kind of maps have indexes?

Answer 3

An atlas or map book.

Question 4

What is a local area?

Answer 4

It is the area where you live.

Question 5

What does a map of a local area show?

Answer 5

It shows only a small area of land.

Question 6

For what is an index used?

Answer 6

To find streets, schools and places of interest.

Question 7

What is a route?

Answer 7

The way along roads and paths between two places.

Question 8

Why do we use street maps?

Answer 8

To find places and to describe the route from one place to another.

Question 9

What are sketch maps?

Answer 9

Rough drawings that look like maps.

Question 10

Why do people draw simple maps?

Answer 10

To quickly show the route between places.

Question 11

Do you need to show compass directions on a sketch map?

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

What is the best way to help show you where north is on a sketch map?

Answer 12

Magnetic compass

Question 13

What does estimate mean?

Answer 13

When you guess the distance without measuring it exactly.

Question 14

What are landmarks?

Answer 14

Objects or buildings we use to find our way along a route.

Question 15

What is a pace?

Answer 15

a long step.

Question 16

What does verbally mean?

Answer 16

When you use words or language instead of a picture.

Question 17

How do you explain the route verbally?

Answer 17

When you give directions through talking about distances, times, street names or landmarks.

Question 18

How do you estimate distances?

Answer 18

You estimate distances between places in meters.

Question 19

How long is a long pace?

Answer 19

About one metre.

Question 20

How can you estimate distances on maps?

Answer 20

By looking at the scale line.

Question 21

What is a scale line?

Answer 21

It is a ruler scale on the bottom of the map that shows you the map distance compared with distances on ground.

Question 22

What is the key on a map?

Answer 22

A list of symbols and what they stand for.

Question 23

What does land use mean?

Answer 23

How people use the land. E.g., for farms. houses or factories.

Question 24

What is a word scale?

Answer 24

a scale that gives the scale in words.

Question 25

What is a large-scale map?

Answer 25

A map that shows a very small area of the earth’s surface, such as part of a town.

Question 26

What is a small-scale map?

Answer 26

A map that shows a large part of the earth, for example a country or a continent.

Question 27

Which kind of map shows a lot of detail?

Answer 27

Large-scale map

Question 28

How can we measure a route on a map that is not in a straight line?

Answer 28

You use a piece of string or tread as a curved ruler.

Question 29

How do you measure direct distance?

Answer 29

Using a ruler.

Question 30

How do you measure indirect distance?

Answer 30

Using the string method.

Question 31

What are direct distances?

Answer 31

The shortest or straightest distances between two points.

Question 32

What is another name for direct distances?

Answer 32

Straight-line distance.

Question 33

Why do we use co-ordinates?

Answer 33

To locate the position of places more accurately on maps.

Question 34

What do we use to locate places accurately on maps?

Answer 34

The latitude and longitude co-ordinates

Question 35

Is it more accurate to give co-ordinates for countries or cities?

Answer 35

Cities.

Question 36

What are current events?

Answer 36

It is things that happen in the present and are reported in the news?

Question 37

Where can we locate word current events?

Answer 37

On a world map.