Globes and Maps

 Globes and Maps

Q.1. What is a globe?

Q.2. When and where was the first globe made?

Q.3. What are the limitations of a globe?

Q.4. What is a map?

Q.5. What is an atlas?

Q.6. State the different kinds of maps?

Q.7. What are Physical maps?

Q.8. What are Political maps?

Q.9. What are Tourist maps?

Q.10. What are Defence maps?

Q.11. What are Thematic maps?

Q.12. What are Topographical maps?

Q.13. What are the three main components of maps?

Q.14. What are the advantages of maps?

Q.15. Describe the three pillars of maps?

Q.16. What are Cardinal directions?

Q.17. Which system do we use to measure distances?

Q.18. What is a map distance and what is the ground distance?

Q.19. What is a scale?

Q.20. What are the two ways of representation of scale?

Q.21. What is a large scale map and what is a short scale map?

Q.22. What are conventional symbols?

Q.23. Describe how colors are used on maps?

Q.24. Give some symbols and what they represent?

Q.25. What is a plan?

Q.26. What is the difference between a plan and a sketch?

Questions : Directions and Maps

 Directions and Maps

Q.1. What should be known to go somewhere?

Q.2. What helps us to know the location of a place?

Q.3. How can we know the directions of a place?

Q.4. Name the four major directions.

Q.5. What is a map?

Q.6. How is a map helpful?

Q.7. What are the big pieces of land in a map called?

Q.8. Name the seven continents?

Q.9. Name the continent which is also a country?

Q.10. Name the continent where no one lives?

Questions : Finding Places II - Maps

 Finding Places II - Maps

Q.1. Why is the globe not useful?

Q.2. What is a map? 

Q.3. What is a book of maps called?

Q.4. What are political maps?

Q.5. What are physical maps?

Q.6. What is the language of a map?

Q.7. What are keys to maps?

Q.8. How are colors useful in maps? Name the colors used on maps and what they signify?

Q.9. Name the four directions?

Q.10. How do we identify the four directions?

Q.11. What are sub-directions and which are they?

Q.12. What is the use of scale on a map?

Q.13. Which kind of scale is called a linear scale?

Q.14. What are the uses of maps?