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Year 8 Geography Skills Recap

The document provides a skills recap for Year 8 Geography students. It includes 15 multiple choice and short answer questions testing students' knowledge of key map reading concepts like the five features of a map (BOLTS), types of maps that show contour lines, labeling compass directions, grid references, interpreting contour lines, drawing lines of latitude and longitude, features shown on synoptic charts, what isobars show, and the direction high and low pressure systems spin.

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Year 8 Geography Skills Recap

The document provides a skills recap for Year 8 Geography students. It includes 15 multiple choice and short answer questions testing students' knowledge of key map reading concepts like the five features of a map (BOLTS), types of maps that show contour lines, labeling compass directions, grid references, interpreting contour lines, drawing lines of latitude and longitude, features shown on synoptic charts, what isobars show, and the direction high and low pressure systems spin.

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Year 8 Geography Skills Recap

1. What are the 5 Features of a map that make up BOLTS

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S

2. What type of map shows contour lines?


a. political
b. synoptic
c. topographical
d. choropleth

3. Label the compass with 8 different directions

4. How many numbers in a grid reference? ____________________

5. How many numbers in an area reference? __________________

6. What do contour lines indicate on a map?


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7. Contour lines that are close together represent that the area of land is?
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8. Contour lines that are evenly spread or far apart represent that the area
of land is?
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9. Draw lines of latitude on the world map.

10. Draw lines of longitude on the world map.

11. What features are shown on a synoptic chart?


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12. What do isobars show?


a. wind speed
b. places of equal air pressure
c. temperature
d. wind direction

13. What direction do low-pressure systems spin?


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14. What direction do high-pressure systems spin?


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15. Is wind direction measured from?


a. the direction it is coming
b. the direction it is going

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