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10 multiple-choice questions and 13 flashcards on Geography and Map Skills, about 7% of the 6th Grade Social Studies bank. Every one carries a written rationale.
Geography and Map Skills is one of 6 chapters in CoStudy's 6th Grade Social Studies bank, and it holds 10 of the bank's 150 multiple-choice questions — roughly 7% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.
Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.
4 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.
A scale on a map shows:
Answer: C — The relationship between map distance and real-world distance
C) E.g., '1 cm = 100 km.' B) Compass rose. A) Title block. D) Cartographer credit.
Lines of latitude run:
Answer: A — East–west, measuring distance north or south of the Equator
A) Latitude lines circle the globe parallel to the Equator. B) That describes longitude. C/D) Geographic untruths.
Which continent contains the world's largest river by discharge, the Amazon?
Answer: B — South America
B) Amazon basin = South America. A) Africa has the Nile and Congo. C) Asia has the Yangtze. D) Australia has no rivers on that scale.
In the standard 7-continent model, Greenland is part of which continent?
Answer: C — North America
C) Geographically part of North America. A) Politically tied to Denmark, but geographically North American. B) Far from Asia. D) Too small to be classed separately.
4 cards from the 13 in this chapter.
Where was the Indus Valley civilization?
Modern-day Pakistan and northwest India. Along the Indus River.
Where are most rainforests located?
Near the equator. Examples: Amazon (South America), Congo (Africa), Southeast Asia.
What were the major cities of Indus Valley?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Known for advanced city planning, sewers, and grid layouts.
What is the 'equator'?
The 0° latitude line — divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
These are a sample. The full Geography and Map Skills chapter runs 23 items with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.
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