Map Skills
Timelines
Random
Reading Maps
1
This is called a ______________. 
Key or Legend
1
Starting with the earliest and following the order in which events occurred.
Chronological
1
If you're absent, this is the first place you should go when you walk into the room the day you get back.
Agenda board/folders
1
This map is a ____________ map.
Historical Map
2
This is called a __________.
Compass Rose
2
B.C.E stands for...
Before Common Era
2
Geographers use these imaginary lines to find absolute locations on a map.
longitude and latitude
2
This map is a _______ map.
Physical map or Topographical Map
3
The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. Ex: 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground
a Map Scale
3
C.E. stands for...
Common Era
3
Canada is ______________ of Mexico
North
3
This map is a _________ map.
Political map
4
Name the 4 Intermediate Directions
Northeast
Southeast
Northwest
Southwest
4
Put these dates in order:
318 BCE, 350 BCE, 215 BCE, 237 BCE
350 BCE, 318 BCE, 237 BCE, 215 BCE
4
The name is this continent is...
Asia
4
Northern Africa is a ________ zone.
Subtropical
5
This city is closest to the following coordinates:
39o North , 104o West
Denver, Colorado
5
These letters stand for...
BC
AD
Before Christ
Anno Domini
5
Miss Hall used to play this sport(s) in high school. (name 1 or both, whatever you remember)
Basketball and/or track
5
This map is a __________ map.
Atlas map
6
Provide an example of 2 cities and their relative location to each other using intermediate directions.
Answers will vary
6
The number of events that happened before 472 BC:
5
6
The name of the Rebellion that happened in American History where farmers overthrew the government (we discussed it as a holiday a couple of weeks ago).
Shay's Rebellion
6
This is manufactured/grown in Penoneme.
Bananas
7
Washington is __________________ of Nebraska.
Northwest
7
This event happened right before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech"
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama 1955
7
Exact date the constitution was signed (day, month, and year).
September 17th, 1787
7
Bakersfield, California has (greater or less than) population than Memphis, Tennessee. 
Less than.