Map Skills and Earth Features
Quiz by Erika Worden
Grade 3
Social Studies (2020)
South Carolina Learning Standards
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- Q1What do you call a person who makes maps?publisherauthorillustratorcartographer300s3.1
- Q2A list that identifies patterns, symbols, or colors used on a maptitlecompassscalelegend300s3.1
- Q3A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) directions.compass rosetitlelegendscale300s3.1
- Q4What do you call the distance used on a map?compasslegendtitlescale300s3.1
- Q5Which map shows how many people live in an areaphysical mappopulation mappolitical mapclimate map300s3.1
- Q6Which map shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities.political mapclimate mapphysical mappopulation map300s3.1
- Q7Which map shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.political mapphysical mappopulation mapclimate map300s3.1
- Q8Which maps show the weather patterns like temperature and rainfall in an area.political mapphysical mapClimate Mappopulation map300s3.1
- Q9What do you call overall weather in an area over a long period of time?climatesnowcloudsrain300s3.1
- Q10What do you call numbers or letters (or both) along the margins of a map.coordinatesnumeralsalphabetsquares300s3.1.2.AG
- Q11What do you call large landmasses on Earth's surfaceoceansContinentsislandsland300s3.1.2.AG
- Q12What are the horizontal lines that run east and west called?meridianequatorLatitudelongitude300s3.1.2.AG
- Q13What do you call the vertical lines that go around the earth from North Pole to South Pole?meridianequatorLatitudeLongitude300s3.1.2.AG
- Q14What do you call the imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole?LongitudeEquatorLatitudePrime Meridian300s3.1.2.AG
- Q15What do you call the imaginary line that divides the world into halves (hemispheres)?latitudePrime Meridianlongitudeequator300s3.1.2.AG