Skip to content
LessonPrint

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.

Set 24 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next setLesson plan

One paper per pupil

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Mapping a Region's Numbers

D2.Geo.1.3-5

NameDate

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

LessonPrint · D2.Geo.1.3-5 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Mapping a Region's Numbers

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

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

More practice for D2.Geo.1.3-5

Make maps of places you know and places you do not.

Teaching this next? Mapping a Region's Numbers is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Grade 3 to Grade 5 worksheets

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