Mapwork and Directions

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 three of 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 three of 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

Where is the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Name the eight points of a compass.

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Cape Town is south east of Johannesburg.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Europe is North of Africa.

Question 11

What is the direction of North America from Cape Town?

Answer 11

North West

Question 12

What is a national border?

Answer 12

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 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Cardinal Points.

Intercardinal Points.

Question 15

Fill in the missing words.

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

Answer 15

When giving directions, you give them from the starting point to the end point.

Howard Centre is east of the Grace Gibbon house.

Question 16

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 16

(B)

Question 17

Please describe what a __________is?
(A) Continent
(B) Ocean
(C) Country

Answer 17

Continent - a large piece of land surrounded largely by water.
Ocean - a large area of salt water
Country - an area of land on a continent that is surrounded by a border.

Question 18

Countries are often divided into smaller areas called __________? Name three of them in South Africa

Answer 18

Provinces. Western Cape. Eastern Cape. Mpumalanga.Gauteng. Limpopo. Northern Cape.

Question 19

What is the name of the people who make maps?

Answer 19

Cartographers

Question 20

Name two different types of maps. What types of information do these maps give you?

Answer 20

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 21

What do geographers use on a map to work out how far they have to travel to get to their destination?

Answer 21

Scale.

Question 22

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 33.9249° S, 18.4241° E

(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 22

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

Question 23

What is a scale on a map?

Answer 23

A scale on a map shows how much smaller the map is from the real land.

Question 24

How do physical maps show height above sea level?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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.