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Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 6

Maps & Tools of Exploration

Compasses, maps, astrolabes and satellites.

What your child practises

Grade 4 social studies uses maps, directions and scale, and compares the tools explorers used long ago with those used today. Ask your child to find north at home and to read a map legend together.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: People, place and environment (by Grade 6) · using maps, globes, directions and scale, and the tools explorers used long ago and use today

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a map of water for sailors called?

    • a chart
    • a recipe
    • a calendar
    • a globe

  2. Question 2

    Which is a round model of the Earth?

    • a map
    • a globe
    • a compass
    • a chart

  3. Question 3

    What are the seven large areas of land on Earth called?

    • islands
    • continents
    • provinces
    • oceans

  4. Question 4

    Which tool shows which way is north?

    • a compass
    • a ruler
    • a thermometer
    • a clock

  5. Question 5

    Lines of latitude run east and west. What do they tell you?

    • what time it is
    • how high a mountain is
    • how deep the ocean is
    • how far north or south of the equator a place is

  6. Question 6

    Which tool, invented after the astrolabe, let sailors measure angles more exactly?

    • a sextant
    • a hammer
    • a lantern
    • a barometer

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