Map Skills
Time
People
Communities
Natural Hazards
100
I help tell the directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
100
I tell the time order of events.
What is a timeline.
100
I follow the laws, vote, tell the truth and help others within my community.I am responsible.
What is a good citizen.
100
A place where people live, work and play.
What is a community?
100
I cause flooding and high winds and bring great destruction. I often occur close to the ocean.
What is a hurrricane?
200
NW, SW, NE, NW ...then North, South, East, West
What are the intermediate and cardinal directions?
200
(Looking at the timeline on the test.) On the timeline, she went to middle school when she was ____. (think before and/or after events)
What is where she went to school after soccer or before high school.
200
I often help others within my community by picking up trash, taking food to the elderly and helping out at the local library. I do all of this out of the goodness of my heart. I never get paid.
What is a volunteer?
200
This is a reason why we need safety, communication,laws, and religious freedom.
What is why people form communities?
200
The ground splits open,the earth shakes and many people lose their lives along with great destruction of property.
What is an earthquake?
300
(Look at a map) I am traveling from Texas to Oklahoma.
What is north?
300
2000-2010... 2010-2020...1990-2020
What is a decade.
300
The local newspaper and town hall meetings
What are ways people within a community communicate with each other?
300
I am a big area with suburbs around me.
What is an urban area?
300
I send lots of water surging through the land and I bring mass destruction.
What is a tsunami?
400
Leaving Brownsville and driving to Nacogdoches.
What is traveling Northeast?
400
(Look at the timeline on p.105.) In 1777 the Declaration of Independence was written.
What is untrue information about this timeline?
400
I was born in France. I fought in the American Revolution.I also helped design Washington, D.C.
Who is Pierre-Charles L'Enfant?
400
Many people put on gloves and coats when the weather turns cold. These people are _______.
What is adapting within the community?
400
I can strike with electricity and can cause instant death.
What is a lightening strike?
500
(Use map from class activity.)I am the street where the school is located.
What is Second Street?
500
(Timeline p. 104) There were several or 2 events that happened on this time line between 1770 and 1780.
What is true information about this timeline?
500
Police, Fire Fighters and Paramedics
Who are people who can help in times of a disaster?
500
The House of Representatives and Senate are the parts of this branch.
What is the Legislative Branch.
500
Police, Fire Fighters and Paramedics are always available
Who are people who can help in times of a disaster?