Grade 5 Mapping Skills Worksheet
This worksheet helps fifth-grade students practice essential mapping skills, including identifying map elements, understanding directions, and interpreting map symbols.
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Grade 5 Mapping Skills
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of mapping skills.
1. Which of the following is used to show directions (North, South, East, West) on a map?
Map Scale
Legend
Compass Rose
Grid System
2. What does a map legend or key tell you?
The distance between two points
The meaning of symbols on the map
The age of the map
The person who made the map
3. The imaginary lines that run east and west around the Earth are called .
4. The imaginary lines that run north and south from pole to pole are called .
5. A helps you measure real distances on a map.
6. Look at the compass rose below. If you are traveling North, and you turn right, what direction are you now traveling?
7. A globe is a flat representation of the Earth.
True
False
8. The equator is an important line of latitude.
True
False
Match each map term with its definition.
9. Prime Meridian
a. Shows the relationship between map distance and real distance
10. Latitude
b. The starting line for measuring longitude (0° longitude)
11. Map Scale
c. Imaginary lines running east and west around the Earth