Grade 4 Social Studies

Maps and Photographs

100

The line that divides one country from another

What is a BORDER?

200

Shows geographical structures as well as varying altitudes of landscape.

What is a GEOGRAPHICAL MAP?

300

Shows the boundaries between regions, provinces, districts, sub-districts and villages. 

What is a POLITICAL MAP?

400

Gives details relating to sedimentary and metamorphic rock.

What is a GEOLOGICAL MAP?

500

Shows important transportation routes that connect important places

What is a TRANSPORTATION MAP?

Components of a Map

100

Tells us what type of a map it is and gives us an idea of the kind of information we can get from the map

What is the NAME OF THE MAP?

200

Refers to the ratio of the distance between any 2 points on the map to the actual distance in real life.

What is the SCALE OF A MAP?

300

Pictures used to represent the things on a map 

What are SYMBOLS OR MARKS?

400

Appears as a line or a bar drawn on the map, marked with graduation marks, to show the distance between places on the map.

What is the BAR SCALE?

500

Are used to specify the locations of things on the ground by having longitude and latitude lines.

What are GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES?

Photographs

100

Can be the geographic tool that shows the actual visual appearance of a thing or a place on the surface of the earth. 

What are PHOTOGRAPHS?

200

Taken from a satellite and sent back to receivers on the ground

What is a SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPH?

300

Taken vertically or diagonally, usually from aircraft that shows objects on the ground in a wide angle

What is an AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH?

400

Usually taken from a place on the same level of ground as the object being photographed.

What is a GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH?

500

SEE PICTURE

What is an AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH?

Physical Characteristics

100

Refers to the characteristics of the plants in an area.

What are PLANT CHARACTERISTICS?

200

Refers to soil characteristics, such as the types of soil and soil fertility

What is SOIL LANDSCAPE?

300

The characteristics of the ground or land

What is LANDSCAPE?

400

Refer to the characteristics of water sources, such as lakes, swamps, marshes, brooks, rivers and seas. 

What are HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS?

500

Refers to the long term atmospheric conditions that include the average temperature and the average amount of rain received.

What is CLIMATE?

Environment

100

Things that occur naturally and are useful to humans including:

Soil, Water, Flora and Fauna and Minerals

What are NATURAL RESOURCES?

200

The protection of natural environments especially from the damaging effects of human activity.

What is CONSERVATION?

300

Erosion and the collapse of riverbanks by river currents, landslides due to heavy downpours, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and forest fires

What are CHANGES THAT OCCUR NATURALLY?

400

Deforestation (cutting down forests), land/water/air pollution due to the disposal of untreated human waste

What are CHANGES CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES?

500

REVERSE QUESTION!

Name different ways to conserve our natural environment - there are FIVE Ways, name 2 or more!

1)SOIL CONSERVATION

2)FOREST CONSERVATION

3)WATER CONSERVATION

4)WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

5)MINERAL CONSERVATION