Map Skills
#1 Map
What is North?
Detroit is best known for having a strong connection to this industry.
A. Mining
B. Fishing
C. Automotive
D. Lumbering
What is C, Automotive?
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What is B, Michigan is located in the Midwest, near the Great Lakes?
The dense forests in the Upper Peninsula made it an important area for this industry.
What is the lumbering industry?
Michigan is made up of the Upper and Lower
#2. Using the world map, what statement best supports the relative location of Michigan?
A. Michigan is in Africa.
B. Michigan is south of the Indian Ocean.
C. Michigan is north of the equator.
D. Michigan is located near Asia.
What is C, Michigan is north of the equator?
#5. What major industry is shown in the picture below?
What is lumbering?
#11. Michigan belongs to this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
The Mackinac Bridge is an example of this kind of characteristic.
What is a human characteristic?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water
#3. The best title for this map is
What is Roadways of Michigan?
The city of Marquette grew because of the discovery of the mineral iron ore. Until iron ore was discovered in the 1850s, few people lived in Marquette. Then mining companies started to load their ore onto ships in Marquette to send it to factories in other states. Marquette grew rapidly. Today mining is still important in Marquette.
This is an important industry in Marquette, Michigan.
What is mining?
#13.
What are the Upper and Lower Peninsulas?
This sentence best explains why many people in the United States live in suburbs and work in cities.
A. Steamboats carry goods between suburbs and cities.
B. Air transportation has reduced the amount of traffic on highways.
C. Canals carry passengers between suburbs and cities.
D. Expressways have reduced travel time.
What is D, expressways have reduced travel time?
Ridges or hills of loose sand piled up by the wind
What are sand dunes?
This lake borders the west coast of Michigan.
Map #6
What is D, Lake Michigan?
Many people moved to Marquette after the discovery of iron ore. This is an example of a....
What is pull factor?
▪ Annual Visits - 1,143,857
▪ Employees - 46 permanent, 84 seasonal
▪ Volunteer Hours - 29,595 from 850 volunteers
▪ Lake Michigan Shoreline - 65 miles (35 miles on the mainland)
▪ Federally threatened or endangered species - 4
▪ Terrestrial plant species – 908
▪ Historic artifacts - 2,500
The information above is best supported by this statement.
What is people use the sand dunes for tourism, photography, nature study, and recreation?
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What is Invasive Species?
A large, flowing body of water that usually empties into a large lake, sea or ocean.
What is a river?
This lake borders the east coast of Michigan.
Map #6
What is A, Lake Huron?
Iron ore is an example of which of the following
A. A physical feature
B. A natural resource
C. A man-made resource
D. A climate pattern
What is B, a natural resource?
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What is a natural resource?
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What is conservation efforts?
Where a river falls steeply down