Map skills

Question 1

What is the name of the imaginary line that goes through the earth?

Answer 1

Axis

Question 2

What is the name of the two ends of the earth’s axis?

Answer 2

North Pole and South Pole

Question 3

What is the name of the imaginary line that circles the middle of the earth?

Answer 3

Equator

Question 4

How many continents are there in our world? Name them.

Answer 4

There are seven continents.

North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and Antartica

Question 5

How many oceans are there in our world? Name them.

Answer 5

There are four oceans:

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic

Question 6

Where is the Indian Ocean?

Answer 6

It is South of Asia and East of Africa

Question 7

Is Antarctica north or south of Africa?

Answer 7

South

Question 8

Where is the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 8

It is West of South America and East of Asia and Australasia

Question 9

What ocean is to the west of South Africa?

Answer 9

Atlantic ocean

Question 10

Name the eight points of a compass.

Answer 10

North, South, East, West, North East, North West, South East, South West

Question 11

Fill in the missing direction words. Cape Town is ____________ of Johannesburg.

Answer 11

Cape Town is South West of Johannesburg

Question 12

Fill in the missing direction words. Europe is _______ of Africa.

Answer 12

Europe is North of Africa.

Question 13

What is the direction of North America from Cape Town?

Answer 13

North West

Question 14

What is a continent?

Answer 14

A continent is a large piece of land

Question 15

What is an ocean?

Answer 15

An ocean is a large area of salt water

Question 16

What is a country?

Answer 16

A country is an area of land that is surrounded by a border

Question 17

What are countries often divided into?

Answer 17

Countries are often divided into smaller areas that are called provinces or states

Question 18

What slogan can you use to remember the points on a compass?

Answer 18

Never eat silk worms

Question 19

How many provinces are there in South Africa?

Answer 19

There are nine provinces

Question 20

What separates the provinces?

Answer 20

Provincial borders

Question 21

What is a national border?

Answer 21

A national border is the line that separates one country from another. People cannot cross a national border and enter another country without permission from that country.

Question 22

What is a person who makes maps called?

Answer 22

A cartographer

Question 23

Geographers go on trips to collect information and see tings in the real world. What are these trips called?

Answer 23

Field trips

Question 24

What do geographers use on a map to know the distance they have travelled?

Answer 24

They use the scale to know distances on the map

Question 25

Where do you look to see what the symbols on the map are?

Answer 25

You look at the key

Question 26

Is the equator a line of longitude or latitude?

Answer 26

The equator is a line of Latitude

Question 27

What does the equator do?

Answer 27

The equator divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres

Question 28

What is an important line of longitude? What does this line do?

Answer 28

The Greenwich meridian. It splits the earth into east and west.

Question 29

What does a traveller need in order to cross a national border?

Answer 29

A passport and a stamp from the country the traveller is entering that tells them how long they can be in the country.

Question 30

What are the four main points on a compass called? What are the points in between the four main points called.

Answer 30

Cardinal Points.

Intercardinal Points.

Question 31

Fill in the missing words.When giving directions, you give them _____ the starting point ______ the end point. Give an example.

Answer 31

When giving directions, you give them from the starting point to the end point. Howard Centre is east of the Grace Gibbon house.

Question 32

Choose the right answer.
When giving the wind directions, you give them:
(A) towards the direction it is blowing;
(B) from the direction it is blowing.

Answer 32

When giving the wind directions, you give them from the direction it is blowing.

Question 33

Name two different types of maps.

What types of information do these maps give you?

Answer 33

Physical maps: these maps show you the height above sea level and all the natural features such as mountains, rivers, lakes.
Political maps: these maps show you how the land is divided into countries.

Question 34

The index of the atlas lists all the places in the maps in the atlas. Answer the questions from this index example:
Cape Town, R.S.A, 24 C10 33.9249S, 18.4241E
(1) On which page would you find Cape Town?
(2) In which grid block on the page would you find Cape Town?
(3) Is Cape Town in the northern or southern hemisphere?
(4) Cape Town is west of the Greenwich meridian. True or False

Answer 34

(1) page 24
(2) grid block c10
(3) Southern Hemisphere
(4) False

Question 35

How do physical maps show height above sea level?

Answer 35

Most physical maps use different colours to show different heights above sea level.

Question 36

What is a spot height? Draw what it looks like on a map.

Answer 36

A spot height is the symbol on a physical map showing the height above sea level of a particular place.It is a triangle with a black dot in the centre and the height written in meters next to the triangle.