Map skills Flashcards
What is the name of the imaginary line that goes through the earth?
Axis
What is the name of the two ends of the earth’s axis?
North Pole and South Pole
What is the name of the imaginary line that circles the middle of the earth?
Equator
How many continents are there in our world? Name them.
There are seven continents.
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and Antartica
How many oceans are there in our world? Name them.
There are four oceans:
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic
Where is the Indian Ocean?
It is South of Asia and East of Africa
Is Antarctica north or south of Africa?
South
Where is the Pacific Ocean?
It is West of South America and East of Asia and Australasia
What ocean is to the west of South Africa?
Atlantic ocean
Name the eight points of a compass.
North, South, East, West, North East, North West, South East, South West
Fill in the missing direction words. Cape Town is ____________ of Johannesburg.
Cape Town is South West of Johannesburg
Fill in the missing direction words. Europe is _______ of Africa.
Europe is North of Africa.
What is the direction of North America from Cape Town?
North West
What is a continent?
A continent is a large piece of land
What is an ocean?
An ocean is a large area of salt water
What is a country?
A country is an area of land that is surrounded by a border
What are countries often divided into?
Countries are often divided into smaller areas that are called provinces or states
What slogan can you use to remember the points on a compass?
Never eat silk worms
How many provinces are there in South Africa?
There are nine provinces
What separates the provinces?
Provincial borders
What is a national border?
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.
What is a person who makes maps called?
A cartographer
Geographers go on trips to collect information and see tings in the real world. What are these trips called?
Field trips
What do geographers use on a map to know the distance they have travelled?
They use the scale to know distances on the map
Where do you look to see what the symbols on the map are?
You look at the key
Is the equator a line of longitude or latitude?
The equator is a line of Latitude
What does the equator do?
The equator divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is an important line of longitude? What does this line do?
The Greenwich meridian. It splits the earth into east and west.
What does a traveller need in order to cross a national border?
A passport and a stamp from the country the traveller is entering that tells them how long they can be in the country.
What are the four main points on a compass called? What are the points in between the four main points called.
Cardinal Points.
Intercardinal Points.
Fill in the missing words.When giving directions, you give them _____ the starting point ______ the end point. Give an example.
When giving directions, you give them from the starting point to the end point. Howard Centre is east of the Grace Gibbon house.
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.
When giving the wind directions, you give them from the direction it is blowing.
Name two different types of maps.
What types of information do these maps give you?
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.
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
(1) page 24
(2) grid block c10
(3) Southern Hemisphere
(4) False
How do physical maps show height above sea level?
Most physical maps use different colours to show different heights above sea level.
What is a spot height? Draw what it looks like on a map.
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.
