Mad about Maps!

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Group Members: _________________________________________ Date:_______________

Instructions: Rotate clockwise through the various map

stations in the classroom. Use your new map skills to
answer the questions associated with each map.
Please show your work when making calculations. When
applicable, ensure units are included in your answers!

STATION 1: ESQUIMALT-METCHOSIN ELECTORAL DISTRICT

1. Is this a large-scale or a small-scale map?

2. What is the representative fraction scale on this map?

3. What do the red-dashed lines indicate?

4. What is the distance from the District Municipality of Esquimalt to the Town of View Royal?

5. What is the distance of Lagoon Road?

6. Who created this map? What is its purpose?

STATION 2: MATHESON LAKE REGIONAL PARK

1. If you were to hike the perimeter of Matheson Lake, what trail would you use?

2. What is the real distance of the trail you chose for answer 1?
 3. Find Matheson Lake Regional Park on the map. Determine the area of this park. Hint: the park is a
rectangle; therefore, you don’t need to use the grid paper!

4. Which is at higher elevation, point A or point B?

5. What is the contour interval (change in elevation between contour lines) for this map?

STATION 3: PRINCE ALBERT’S LANDING

1. Is this a large-scale or a small-scale map?

2. Estimate the peak of Adamson Peak

3. What compass direction are you traveling from Finlayson Point to Lighthouse Point?

4. What is located at reference grid number 395690?

5. What is the 6-digit grid reference for:

The hospital? Light house point? The height spot of 84 meters?

STATION 4: KOOTENAY ROCKIES

1. Is the main map a large-scale or small-scale map?

2. What is the real distance from the Fernie Hospital to Nelson?

3. What is located at reference grid number 325123?

4. What is the 6-digit reference grid number for Monashee Park?

5. Looking at the Jimsmith Lake inset map (highlighted), what is the area of the park?
STATION 5: CRD REGIONAL PARKS AND TRAILS MAP

1. What is the real distance between East Sooke Regional Park and Thetis Lake Regional Park?

2. How long is the Galloping Goose trail gravel?

3. What is the real distance of the Brentwood Bay-Mill Bay ferry route?

4. If you were at Langford Lake and needed to pick a friend up from Victoria International Airport, what
direction would you need to travel?

5. When was this map published? Why is knowing the date a map was made important?

STATION 6: PARIS

1. What type of map is this? What would it be used for?

2. Is this map large-scale or small-scale?

3. What grid cell is the Eiffel Tower located in? (Note, see map edges to determine a letter followed by a
number)

4. You are visiting the Arc de Triamphe and want to travel to the Meseum National d’Histoire Naturelle
(National History Museum). What metro line (indicate colour and order) would you take?

5. How far away (real distance) is the nearest Tourism Information Office from the Musee du Louvre
(Louvre Museum)?
STATION 7: NANAIMO

1 What is the purpose of this map?

2 What is the real distance of the Nanaimo Harbour to Gabriola Island ferry route?

3 What is the real distance between the Nanaimo Airport and the Helijet terminal?

4 If you were the hike the entire perimeter of Newcastle Marine Provincial Park, how long (real distance)
would that be?

STATION 8: SOUTHWEST PASSAGE ISLANDS

1. What is the 6-digit grid reference for:

Lookout hill? Porpoise Point? Diamond Peak?

2. What is the general direction of creek flow in grid square 4483?

3. What is the approximate elevation of Diamond Peak?

4. What is the real distance from the anchorage in Crescent Bay to Pirates Cove on Little Wizard Island?

5. What is the area of Big Wizard Island?