Map Skills Knowledge Check

2nd Grade Social StudiesGeography4 pages

About this worksheet

Eleven questions check 2nd grade map skills across four pages. Part 1 uses stars on a world map to test North America, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean. Part 2 asks students to pick pictures of a valley and an island and mark two true or false statements about rivers and mountains. Part 3 has a map key with snowy peaks for mountains, a fish for a lake, and a barn for a farm, and ends with why farms go on flat land. It covers C3 Framework indicators D2.Geo.3.K-2 and D2.Geo.9.K-2, and an answer key is included.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.3.K-2

โ€œUse maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.โ€

Parts 1 and 3, where a world map with stars and a map key with symbols identify continents, a lake, mountains, and farmland.

D2.Geo.9.K-2

โ€œDescribe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.โ€

Question 11, which links flat land to farming and asks students to explain the choice in one sentence.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1 Continents and Oceans

Star A sits on North America and Star B on Africa. Students choose the continent for each, then name the ocean between North America and Europe.

Part 2 Landforms and Water

Two picture choices ask which shows a valley and which shows an island. Two true or false items state that a river is still water and that a mountain is the highest kind of land.

Part 3 Reading a Map

Students use the map key to say where to catch fish, where to go on a steep hike, and what the barn symbol shows. Question 11 asks why people build farms on flat land instead of steep mountains.

How teachers use it

Unit test

Save this for the end of the geography unit. Question 3 is the hardest recall item, since the Atlantic Ocean is not named anywhere on the page.

Read-aloud support

Read every question aloud for students still decoding. The map key questions in Part 3 test the map, not the reading.

Reteach groups

Group students by the part they missed. Anyone who marked question 6 true needs a reminder that rivers flow, and a short video of a stream does it in a minute.

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