QUESTIONS - Examine the map to answer the questions.

1. What is a map?
2. What are the directions on a map?
3. In what direction from the center of the picture is the island?
4. In what direction from the center of the picture is the volcano?
5. In what direction from the center of the picture is the cape?
6. In what direction from the center of the picture is the bay?
7. In what direction from the center of the picture is the lake?
8. In what direction from the center of the picture is the strait?
9. In what direction from the center of the picture are the mountains?
10. In what direction from the center of the picture is the isthmus?
11. What is in the east?
12. What is in the west?
13. What is in the south?
14. What is in the north?
15. What is in the northwest?
16. What is in the southeast?
17. What is in the northeast?
18. What is in the southwest?

ANSWERS

1. A map is a picture of the whole, or a part, of the Earth's surface.
2. The directions are north toward the top, south toward the bottom, east to the right, and west to the left.
3. The island is north of the center.
4. The volcano is east of the center.
5. The cape is south of the center.
6. The bay is west of the center.
7. The lake is northeast of the center.
8. The strait is southwest of the center.
9. The mountains are northwest of the center.
10. The isthmus is southwest of the center.
11. The volcano is in the east.
12. The bay is in the west.
13. The cape is in the south.
14. The island is in the north.
15. The mountains are in the northwest.
16. The strait is in the southeast.
17. The lake is in the northeast.
18. The isthmus is in the southwest.

Notebook Work: Label the provided map with the directions east, west, north, south, northwest, southeast, northeast, and southwest. Also label the volcano, the isthmus, the strait, the lake and river, the bay, the island, the mountains, and the cape.