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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 show growth and decline in different ways on one map?
  • A.It uses less ink
  • B.Two colours look better
  • C.So a reader can see at a glance which districts lost people
2.You are mapping population change by district. What must the key show?
  • A.What each shade or symbol stands for in numbers
  • B.The paper size
  • C.The date you drew it
3.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.Leave it white
  • C.Guess a value
4.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
5.Why might two accurate maps of one region look completely different?
  • A.Maps must agree
  • B.One is wrong
  • C.They were made to answer different questions
6.Your map shows every street name and hides the districts. What is wrong?
  • A.The detail buries the pattern the map was made to show
  • B.Street names are private
  • C.Maps must be plain
7.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
8.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

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Answer key — Mapping a Region's Numbers

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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.