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Year 6 Geography

Name: ________________________

Skills in this pack

  • Directions and the compass
  • Reading a map
  • The water cycle

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Year 6 Geography · 1 of 3

Directions and the compass

Use the four main directions and the four that lie between them to say where one place is from another, and read the direction arrow on a map.

  1. 1.Which direction is opposite north?

  2. 2.A town is north-east of your village. In which direction is your village from the town?

  3. 3.Put the four main directions in the order you meet them going clockwise, starting at north.

    • West
    • North
    • East
    • South

  4. 4.Tap the north-west point of this compass rose.

    Write the number of the part.

    12345678

  5. 5.Match each direction to the direction opposite it.

    • North
    • East
    • North-east
    • North-west
    • South-west
    • West
    • South
    • South-east

  6. 6.The sun rises in the east. You stand outside in the early morning facing the rising sun. Which direction is behind you?

    • a) West
    • b) North
    • c) East
    • d) South

  7. 7.Which direction lies halfway between south and east?

  8. 8.You are walking east. You turn to your right. Which direction are you walking now?

    • a) East
    • b) West
    • c) North
    • d) South

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Year 6 Geography · 2 of 3

Reading a map

Find the four things nearly every map carries — its title, its direction arrow, its key and its scale — and use the key to say what a symbol or a colour on the map stands for.

  1. 1.A map has no room to draw a real school building, so it puts a small mark on the paper to stand for one instead. What is that mark called?

  2. 2.Why does a map use small marks instead of drawing everything as it really looks?

    • a) There is nothing like enough room on the paper to draw every real thing
    • b) Because a map is always drawn by a machine
    • c) Drawing things properly is against the rules of map making
    • d) Because most people cannot recognise a drawing of a building

  3. 3.A map has no direction arrow drawn on it anywhere. What can you no longer be sure of?

    • a) What each of its marks stands for
    • b) Which place it is a map of
    • c) How far apart the places on it are
    • d) Which way up the map is meant to be read

  4. 4.Put these steps in the order you would use them to work out how far apart two towns really are, using a map.

    • Measure the length between them on the paper
    • Find the two towns on the map
    • Write down the real distance on the ground
    • Read what the scale says that length stands for

  5. 5.Tap the part of this map that tells you what each symbol on it stands for.

    Write the number of the part.

    12345

  6. 6.A map's key gives blue for water. A long blue line winds across the map from the hills down to the coast. What is it most likely to be?

    • a) A railway line
    • b) A road
    • c) The border of a region
    • d) A river

  7. 7.Which of a map's four helpers do you need if you want to know how far apart two places really are?

  8. 8.Match each of a map's four helpers to what it tells you.

    • The title
    • The key
    • The direction arrow
    • The scale
    • How much real ground a length on the paper stands for
    • What each mark and colour stands for
    • Which place the map is showing
    • Which way north lies on the page

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Year 6 Geography · 3 of 3

The water cycle

Name the four stages of the water cycle, put them in order, and explain where rain comes from and why the earth never runs out of water.

  1. 1.What keeps the whole water cycle going?

    • a) The wind blowing across the land
    • b) Heat from the sun
    • c) The rivers pushing water back uphill
    • d) The weight of the clouds

  2. 2.Water in a lake is warmed by the sun, turns into vapour and rises into the air. What is that stage called?

  3. 3.Match each stage of the water cycle to what happens in it.

    • Evaporation
    • Condensation
    • Precipitation
    • Collection
    • Liquid water turns into vapour and rises
    • Vapour cools and turns back into tiny droplets
    • Water falls from a cloud as rain, snow or hail
    • Water gathers in seas and lakes, or soaks into the ground

  4. 4.Sort each one by whether it puts water into the air or takes water out of it.

    Groups: Puts water into the air · Takes water out of the air

    • Snow falling on a mountain
    • A lake warming in the sun
    • A puddle drying up after the rain has stopped
    • Vapour cooling into the droplets of a cloud
    • Rain falling on a field
    • Water leaving the leaves of a tree

  5. 5.Why do clouds form high in the sky rather than just above the ground?

    • a) Clouds are pushed up there by the wind after they have formed
    • b) The air is colder up there, so rising vapour cools and turns back into droplets
    • c) Water vapour is too heavy to stay near the ground
    • d) The sun burns away any cloud that forms lower down

  6. 6.Tap the place in this picture where condensation is happening.

    Write the number of the part.

    123456

  7. 7.Trees and plants give off water vapour from their leaves, adding to the vapour in the air. What is that called?

  8. 8.The water cycle has no true beginning — it goes round and round. Starting with evaporation, put its four stages in the order they follow one another.

    • Collection
    • Condensation
    • Precipitation
    • Evaporation

The water cycle · Year 6 Geography · www.arenapublications.com/learn

Answer keys — Year 6 Geography

In the same order as the worksheets.

Directions and the compass

  1. 1. south
  2. 2.
    • south-west
    • south west
    • southwest
  3. 3. 1. North 2. East 3. South 4. West
  4. 4. 8 — North-west
  5. 5. North → South; East → West; North-east → South-west; North-west → South-east
  6. 6. a) West
  7. 7.
    • south-east
    • south east
    • southeast
  8. 8. d) South

Reading a map

  1. 1.
    • a symbol
    • symbol
  2. 2. a) There is nothing like enough room on the paper to draw every real thing
  3. 3. d) Which way up the map is meant to be read
  4. 4. 1. Find the two towns on the map 2. Measure the length between them on the paper 3. Read what the scale says that length stands for 4. Write down the real distance on the ground
  5. 5. 4 — The key
  6. 6. d) A river
  7. 7.
    • the scale
    • scale
  8. 8. The title → Which place the map is showing; The key → What each mark and colour stands for; The direction arrow → Which way north lies on the page; The scale → How much real ground a length on the paper stands for

The water cycle

  1. 1. b) Heat from the sun
  2. 2. evaporation
  3. 3. Evaporation → Liquid water turns into vapour and rises; Condensation → Vapour cools and turns back into tiny droplets; Precipitation → Water falls from a cloud as rain, snow or hail; Collection → Water gathers in seas and lakes, or soaks into the ground
  4. 4. A lake warming in the sun → Puts water into the air; Rain falling on a field → Takes water out of the air; Vapour cooling into the droplets of a cloud → Takes water out of the air; Water leaving the leaves of a tree → Puts water into the air; Snow falling on a mountain → Takes water out of the air; A puddle drying up after the rain has stopped → Puts water into the air
  5. 5. b) The air is colder up there, so rising vapour cools and turns back into droplets
  6. 6. 3 — The cloud
  7. 7. transpiration
  8. 8. 1. Evaporation 2. Condensation 3. Precipitation 4. Collection

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