STEP INTO THE GED
Topic: Maps
Reading Practice

Discussion:  Get together with one or more friends, and talk about each item.

1.   How do we use maps in everyday life?
2.   Have you ever drawn up  a map for someone?  Why?
3.   What parts of a map are hard to use?  Why?
4.   What aspect of a map do you find most useful?

Answer the questions in the boxes provided. (NOTE: To move from one line to another, use the tab key or click in the next line.)

1. What does geography study?

ANSWER Find answer in reading.

2. Name two things geography may study?
 

ANSWER Find answer in reading.

3. What does navigable mean?

ANSWER Find answer in reading.

4, What is a map?

ANSWER a tool of geography, a small, flat drawing of a city, state, country, etc.
 

5. Why is a map small?
 

ANSWER Answers may vary. A map is useful only if it is much smaller than the area it shows.

6. Why is a map flat?
 
 

ANSWER A map is not the real place; it is a drawing of it.
 

7. List a few uses for maps.

  ANSWER to find ways to get to a place, to plan a route, to tell distances, etc.

8. Are irrigation ditches navigable?
 
 

ANSWER No

9. What is a compass rose?
 

ANSWER The symbol used to tell north, south, east, west on a map

 10. What does drawn to scale mean?
 
 
 

ANSWER Answers may vary. It means made to show the relationships in distance and size between places.