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Mapping a Region's Numbers is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on constructing maps of familiar and unfamiliar places, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Geo.1.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Mapping a Region's Numbers

D2.Geo.1.3-5

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Circle the best answer.

1.Why might two accurate maps of one region look completely different?
  • A.They were made to answer different questions
  • B.One is wrong
  • C.Maps must agree
2.Your map shows every street name and hides the districts. What is wrong?
  • A.Maps must be plain
  • B.Street names are private
  • C.The detail buries the pattern the map was made to show
3.You are mapping a coast you have never seen. What do you use?
  • A.A blank sheet
  • B.Charts, photographs and written descriptions of it
  • C.Your imagination
4.What does a scale bar let a reader do that a written scale does not?
  • A.Find north
  • B.Measure a distance straight off the map with a ruler or thumb
  • C.Read the title
5.You are mapping population change by district. What must the key show?
  • A.The paper size
  • B.The date you drew it
  • C.What each shade or symbol stands for in numbers
6.Why put the census year in the map's title?
  • A.It fills the space
  • B.Titles must be long
  • C.Because the same districts held different numbers in other years
7.Why show growth and decline in different ways on one map?
  • A.So a reader can see at a glance which districts lost people
  • B.It uses less ink
  • C.Two colours look better
8.What should you do about a district your figures do not cover?
  • A.Leave it white
  • B.Mark it as no data rather than leaving it looking empty
  • C.Guess a value

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Answer key — Mapping a Region's Numbers

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  1. 1.They were made to answer different questions
  2. 2.The detail buries the pattern the map was made to show
  3. 3.Charts, photographs and written descriptions of it
  4. 4.Measure a distance straight off the map with a ruler or thumb
  5. 5.What each shade or symbol stands for in numbers
  6. 6.Because the same districts held different numbers in other years
  7. 7.So a reader can see at a glance which districts lost people
  8. 8.Mark it as no data rather than leaving it looking empty

More practice for D2.Geo.1.3-5

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.1.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.