Geog.
1 Answers to ‘Your Turn’
Chapter 2. Maps and mapping
Chapter 2.1 Mapping connections
1. A = Isle of Man; B = Northumberland; C = Cornwall; D = Surrey;
E = Shrewsbury; F = Nigeria; G = Japan; H = China; I = Los Angeles; J = Kenya;
K = Hong Kong; L = Jamaica.
2. a International — Nigeria, Hong Kong, Kenya, China, Japan, Los Angeles (and
Jamaica)
b Local — Anfield, Kirkdale
c National — Warkworth (Northumberland), Cornwall, Isle of Man, Shrewsbury,
Surrey
3. This exercise could be extended in class or for homework, taking in TV
programmes and so on.
4. Students will have to think about where their food, clothing, and other goods
come from, and how their lives would change if there were no internet.
Encourage discussion.
Chapter 2.2 A plan of Walter’s room
1. X = tall white bookcase; Y = smaller black bookcase
2. 300 cm (or 3 m)
3. a 300 cm b 150 cm
4. The lengths of the lines should be: a 2 cm b 4 cm c 10 cm.
5 Some students will find this question difficult, since b and c involve half-
centimeters, and since they must convert centimeters to meters.
a 6m b 19.5m c 10.5m
6. The lengths of the lines should be: 1 cm; 5 cm; 10 cm,
7. Walter's room On the plan In real life
How wide is it? 12 cm 360 cm
How long? 12 cm 360 cm
How long is the bed? 6.5 cm 195 cm
How wide is the big window? 5 cm 150 cm
How wide is the doorway? 2.5 cm 75 cm
8. a The top
b They should draw a rectangle 1.5 cm by 2 cm.
c It will easily fit through the doorway. You could move it end first.
9. Plans don't usually show temporary features, like books, chairs, games.
10. Below are detailed instructions. You could give these to students to follow, for
drawing a plan around the school.
Drawing the plan of a room
Collect everything you will need: a measuring tape showing centimeters, a
sheet of rough paper, a pencil, a ruler, and paper to draw your final plan on. (Steel
tapes are best for measuring, if you can get one. Graph paper is good for drawing
a plan.)
Draw a rough plan of the room on your rough paper, with lines and
labels for all the things you will show: door, windows, and so on.
Ask someone to help you for the next three steps.
Clear a space around the walls, windows, and door to make measuring easier.
Measure each wall, window, etc. in turn. Make sure to keep the measuring tape
straight.
Write the measurements on your rough plan, as you go.
Choose a suitable scale. (Your plan can fill the whole page.)
Using the scale, and the measurements, work out the length of each line to draw on
your final plan. Write these on your rough plan, and circle them.
Draw your final plan, using the pencil and ruler.
Write the scale beside your plan.
Give your plan a title.
Chapter 2.3 Your mental maps
1. A map you carry in your head
2. Convince students that they have mental maps by asking them for directions to
somewhere. For example, from the classroom to the school entrance or similar.
3. a Check against Walter's map.
b They are about things that are important to him: where friends live, football,
family, school, bus stop, and so on.
4. a.
Go out of the front door and turn right.
Walk along Anfield Road until you see Arkles Lane on the left.
Then turn into Arkles Lane. Tim's is the fourth house on the right.
b.
Go out of the front door and turn left.
Walk to the end of Arkles Lane, and carry straight on, to Oakfield Road.
The bus stop is on the left, after the bend in the road.
c. There are two ways you could go:
With your back to Priory Road, turn left and walk along Walton Lane. The
playground will be on your left.
Take the first road on the left (Anfield Road).
Go along Anfield Road. You will see the stadium on your right.
Or:
Go along Priory Road.
When you reach Arkles Lane, turn right.
Then take the next road on your right. It is Anfield Road. The stadium is on your
left.
For 4c, you could ask students which way looks shorter on Walter's map. Can they be
sure it is shorter in real life? The answer is no, since his map is not to scale. For all of
question 4, point out that the success of the directions depends on how good Walter's
map is.
5. c. ii Our mental maps show what is important to us. So they are likely to be
different for different people (and perception of distance will be different). This
could be a problem if you are trying to give people clear directions.
6. Answers (judgments) will vary.
7. To see if it's working, you could ask them to repeat question 5b at a later date, and
compare their new maps with their earlier efforts.
Chapter 2.4 Real maps
3. a Similarities: same place; river, castle, bridges, woods, and roads marked.
b The main differences will be in scale, level of detail, and accuracy:
C is to scale, so it is more accurate than a sketch map.
It gives more detail in terms of buildings.
It distinguishes between different types of roads, and shows footpaths.
It uses some icons and abbreviations.
It does not have annotations.
4. Students might notice that it's quite difficult to say where the castle is, in
words.lin the bottom half of the map' and 'in the neck of the loop' are some
descriptions. Let them work through questions 5 and 6 before commenting on this.
5. a i. B2 i i C 4
b i B4: river, wood, street (road), footpath, part of church, other
buildings
ii C3: river, part of main street, other street, footpath, buildings
6. Students should notice that the grid lines make it a lot easier to say where
something is on the map, and to find things.
Chapter 2.5 Using grid references
1. a Any two of: Mickleham Hall, other buildings, Juniperhill Wood, other wood,
fields, secondary road (B2209), small roads (drives/ tracks). We can assume that the
post office is in 3246, although the label is in 3245.
b Any two of: Mickleham village, school, pub, church, post office, other buildings,
roads (A24 and B2209), river, bridge, public paths, fields.
c Any two of: Norbury Park (woods), river, small roads (tracks), bridge, fields. (The
label for Swanworth Farm is in that square, but the farm itself is in 3146.)
d Any two of: A24, railway line, embankment, public paths, river, fields, one
building, corners of two woods.
2. a 3045 b 3145 c 3044
3. a A tunnel b A right-angle bend in a farm track
c A bridge over the river
4. a 324456 b 323461 (assuming it is part of the larger building)
c 323463
5. There are trees and bushes growing along the river banks, and these show up on
the photo.
6. Students need to check the photo too. You might be able to see the
river through the trees, on your left, and the railway on your right.
There is a public footpath to the south of you, and it might have
bushes or fences along it. You might get a glimpse of Cowslip Farm.
7. It's just a little over half a kilometre (say 0.55 km), measured from the lower end
of both sets of farm buildings.
8. They allow you to say more precisely where something is in a square.
Chapter 2.6 How far?
1. 1.6 km
2. 1.45 km
3. About 1.3 km
4. Chapel Farm Park
5. Crabtree Cottages
6. a. Juniper Hall, 275124; St Michael's church, 273132
b. The directions could go something like this: With your back to the church, turn
left and walk along the road for about 0.7 km. You will see a smaller road going off
on your left. Take it, and walk a little way along it — about 0.1 km. Juniper Hall is
the big building on your right. (Students might notice from the photo that Juniper
Hall is not a rectangular block. It has wings, which make it easy to spot on the
map. The entrance shown in the photo is at the rear, away from the road.)
Chapter 2.7 Which direction?
1. a. South b. East c. South west d. North west
2. a. Riding school b. Hostel c. ice cream parlour d. Bike hire
3. a. South b. North west
4. a. South b. North west c. South east
5. About 110m
6. He stayed in cottage 1.
7. Students should make the word ‘tomato’.
Chapter 2.8 Ordnance Survey maps
1. The river is the River Coquet. It flows into the North Sea at Amble.
2. a 2407 b 2504 c 2705
3. a New Barns
b the 'parking' icon; on the map the icon is sitting over a caravan park, but the
two blue lines point to the actual parking areas
c Warkworth Castled Hermitage Farm
e water works f a lighthouse
4. 1 cm represents 25 000 cm, or 250 m. So 4 cm represents 1000 m or 1 km.
5. The top of the photo is north.
6. Violet lives in the house on the corner, at approximately 248056.
7. The correct answer is c. The map shows that Amble has a larger built-up area; it
has three or four times as many buildings as Warkworth (but not five or six
times as many).
8. a Five (one in 2503, one on 2603, one in 2604, two in 2704) b Four (all in
2604)
c Two (one in 2504, the other in 2704)
9. a Post office: 247060, or 267046.
b Club house: 255066.
c Phone box: 275043, or 234067; the leader lines point to the exact location.
d Old bridge: 247063; forbid, students should look for ornate typeface in a label.
10. Caravan parks in 2703/2704 and 2505/2506; caravan site in 2507; parking areas in
2704, 2604, and 2506; information centre in 2604; picnic sites in 2506 and 2604,
with toilets
11. Students should mention all or most of these: visit the historic sites — for
example, the ruins of Warkworth castle and hermitage, the old bridge in
Warkworth, and the marked rock in 2304; explore
Warkworth and Amble; walk and sunbathe on the beach; swim; play golf; go sailing
and fishing; walk by the river; visit the nature reserve (2704), go kart racing (2603),
explore the rocks by the sea, looking in rock pools; have picnics.
Chapter 2.9 How high?
1. A = 3, B = 1, C = 2
2. a 0743b It's beside the village of Alton.
3. a It shows that the land along that line is 200 m above sea level.
b 190 m above sea level (the contour lines are at intervals of 10 m).
4. a 100m b 150m c 130 m — but tracking the contour lines is difficult
here so a good answer is ‘around 128 m', using the spot height nearby.
5. a 0642; contour lines tightly packed. Students might also suggest 0742. The
contour lines in 0539 are close, but not as close as in those two.
b 1240 has only two contour lines passing through it. Students might suggest
1241 or 1242 — it's a close call. 1242 does have a large flat area — but also a
steepish slope.
6. It appears to be quite hilly, in particular with a steep slope down to the River
Churnet, and Toot Hill across the river. (Plenty of contour lines, close together.)
7. a Downhill (to the little river); note that the leader lines point to the exact
locations of the phones.
b Uphill; the road goes along flat land first, then turns and goes uphill.
c Along flat land
8. a It appears to run along flat land — no contour lines cross it. (But there is likely
to be a slight slope, since rivers run downhill.)
b A river flows from high land to low. Judging by the spot heights, this river is
flowing southwards. There is a spot height of 103 m in square 0742, 91 m in
square 1041, and 87 m in square 1039.
9. This is a challenge, but students should have fun with it. They can go past Alton
Towers. There's woodland, and a castle at Alton, and weirs on the Chernet, and lots
of bridges. There's a lake or reservoir near Waste Farm, and old earthworks west of
Alton.
Chapter 2.10 Where on Earth?
1.
a. An imaginary line around the middle of Earth; it is at 0° latitude.
b. An imaginary line that circles Earth from pole to pole; it is at 0° longitude.
2. a. I 30°N 75°E i 15°S 30°E
b. E
3. a. i. C ii. E
b. C and H
c. A
d. I. D ii. G
