Basic Map Skills Trivia Quiz
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 322
In the centuries past, most people could not know how to get to a place unless they studied the maps and followed their directions. Can you correctly navigate just by using a map? Take up the quiz below on some basic map skills and find out. All the best and try not to get lost!
Questions and Answers
- 1.A map is a picture/drawing of a part of the earth
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Check all correct answers. Key components of a map are
- A.
Title
- B.
Legend/key
- C.
Scale
- D.
Compass rose
- 3.Maps are used to show where things are.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.The Cardinal Directions on a Compass Rose are
- A.
Down
- B.
Up
- C.
Last
- D.
North
- 5.Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast are
- A.
Don't exist
- B.
Intermediate directions
- C.
Aren't on the Compass Rose
- 6.A legend/key should be on all maps.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The Scale on a map is used to show how the distance on the map relates the the real world.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.This is a picture of a Compass Rose
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.This is a picture of a map legend/key.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.What did you think of the Compass Rose song?
- A.
Hated it
- B.
Loved it
- C.
It was okay
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