Caribbean School Atlas Skills Workbook Answers

Answers
1 Table of contents
1 pages 28–29 2 page 74 3 page 61
4 pages 46–47 5 pages 19, 45 6 pages 68, 69
7 page 46 8 pages 20, 21, 50, 51, 70
2 Index
1 Anguilla, Cuba, San Juan, Tortola
2 Basseterre, Belmopan, Black Sea, Bridgetown
3 St Barthélemy, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent
4 Caracas, Caribbean, Carlisle Bay, Carriacou
5 Tasmania 6 Basseterre 7 Odessa 8 Lithuania
9 Port-of-Spain 10 page 28 11 pages 14–15
12 page 10 13 page 11 14 page 36 15 page 13
16 country, North America, Panama
17 river, Guyana 18 capital, Grenada
19 islands, Barbuda, country 20 country, Africa
3 Symbols
4 Rivers and lakes
1 Corentyne 2 Essequibo 3 Caroni 4 Crater Lake
5 Barbuda 6 3 7 salt 8 canal 9 lagoon
10 Morne Trois Pitons, Castle Bruce
11 Melville Hall 12 Morne Watt, Roseau
1 Dominican Republic 2 Haiti 3 St Lucia
4 Martinique 5 Castries 6 Port-of-Spain
7 Panama City 8 Belmopan 9 Georgetown
10 Marigot 11 Soufrière 12 St Joseph
13 Spanish Town 14 D2 15 B2 16 E1
6 Direction
1 North 2 South 3 East 4 West 5 southeast SE
6 southwest SW 7 northwest NW
8 Going clockwise; NE, SE, SW and NE 9 N
10 SE 11 NW 12 west 13 south 14 northwest
15 southwest 16 southeast 17 Argentina,
18 Uruguay 19 southwest 20 Dominica
21 northwest 22 Haiti 23 northeast
7 Coordinates
1 20°N 2 40°N 3 60°N 4 40°S 5 10°S 6 60°W
7 80°W 8 90°E 9 70°E 10 10°N, 20°N
11 65°W, 85°W 12 Costa Rica 13 Colombia
14 Venezuela 15 Suriname 16 Mexico,
Guatemala, El Salvador 17 18°N 77°W
18 14°N 61°W 19 6°N 59°W 20 62°50' W
8 Elevation
1 500, 1000 2 1000 3 200, 500 4 0, 100
5 3000, 5000 6 5000 7 below 8 985 9 1432
10 340 11 2042 12 8848 13 B 14 A 15 A
16 A 17 A 18 B
9 Scale
1 1:10,000 1:50,000 1:145,000 1:800,000
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2 145,000 250,000 400,000 600,000
3 1:3,000,000 4 1:350,000 5 1:600,000
6 1:10,500,000 7 1:21,000,000 8 1:85,000,000
9 1:100,000,000 10 1:350,000
11 1:100,000,000 12 1:600,000 1:260,000
13 1:600,000 14 larger 15 relationship
16 small 17 large 18 distances
10 Distance
1 500 2 300 3 900 4 1,600 5 70 6 235 7 9
8 17 9 35 10 11,000 11 300
11 Game box
Plan a route: 1 St Ann’s Bay 2 Ocho Rios
3 Port Antonio 4 Morant Bay
Find the mountain: Morne Diablotin
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1 Luxembourg 2 Liechtenstein
3 average age to which people in Africa are
expected to live 4 Height of Nevis Peak
5 height of Mount Everest 6 walls of classroom
7 road 8 international boundary
9 district boundary 10 parish boundaries
11 normal direction of the wind
12 flows of people to the Caribbean from Syria,
Lebanon 13 track 14 gas pipeline 15 migrations
16 track of Jeanne 2004 17 plate boundary
18 land of height 0–100 metres 19 African
20 forest 21 northern forest 22 airport
23 national capital 24 botanic gardens
25 golf course 26 sugar factory
27 historic site/fort/monument
28 important town 29 tourist hotel area
30 watersports 31 rice 32 art gallery/museum
33 bird sanctuary
5 Location
12 Map skills test
18 Game box
1 D 2 B 3 D 4 C 5 C 6 C 7 D 8 A 9 B 10 A
11 C 12 B 13 C 14 A 15 C 16 D 17 A 18 B
19 D 20 B
Topic maps word search:
13 Internal boundaries
1 San Fernando 2 Arima 3 Sangre Grande
4 counties 5 Guyana 6 Montserrat 7 St Lucia
8 St Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Antigua, Dominica,
St Vincent, Grenade, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago
9 Guyana 10 Nevis 11 Belize 12 St Michael
13 St Peter 14 Holetown 15 St George
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14 Climate
1 0–250 2 over 1500 3 1000–1500
4 very dry, very wet 5 very wet 6 Portlad
7 south 8 low, 1500 9 east 10 northeast
11 Northern Range 12 August 13 Barrow Point
14 Darwin 15 Odessa 16 Buenos Aires 17 hot
18 cool 19 –25°C, 5°C 20 29°C, 25°C
21 Barrow Point 22 Antigua 23 3
24 east to west then north 25 east to west
26 September 27 January, February, March, April
28 Rita and Wilma
15 Population
1 western Australia 2 France 3 India 4 Oceania
5 Asia 6 4200 million 7 Africa 8 21 9 Africa 10
75 11 Caribs, Tiano 12 Asanti 13 45 million 14
Indians 15 Toronto 16 over 300 17 under 20 18
7 19 5 20 one-third 21 Trelawny 22 Blue,
Cockpit 23 Castries 24 0 –200
16 Resources
1 half 2 lower 3 coconuts, cocoa, bananas, sugar
cane, nutmegs 4 St David 5 St George
6 near hotels; near factories, shops and offices;
low land 7 citrus fruits, bananas 8 four
9 sugar cane 10 coast 11 sugar cane
12 southwestern 13 gold, diamonds 14 rice
17 Tourism
1 watersports 2 botanic gardens 3 forest reserve
4 bird sanctuary 5 art gallery/museum
6 historic site/fort/museum 7 pitch lake
8 golf course 9 north 10 1000, 2000
11 south, 1000, 2000
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19 Topic maps skills test
1 10 2 B 3 B 4 D 5 C 6 D 7 B 8 B 9 D 1 D
11 A 12 B 13 C 14 D
21 Flags of Commonwealth
Caribbean countries
1 Antigua and Barbuda 2 Grenada 3 Jamaica
4 Barbados 5 Trinidad and Tobago
6 The Bahamas 7 Belize 8 Guyana 9 St Lucia
10 Montserrat 11 St Vincent and the Grenadines
12 Dominica 13 St Kitts and Nevis
14 British Virgin Islands 15 Cayman Islands
16 Turks and Caicos 17 Anguilla
18 Antigua and Barbuda 19 The Bahamas
20 Barbados 21 Belize 22 Dominica
23 Grenada 24 Guyana 25 Jamaica
26 Montserrat 27 St Kitts 28 St Lucia
29 St Vincent 30 Trinidad and Tobago 31 Haiti
32 Suriname 33 Anguilla 34 British Virgin Islands
35 Cayman Islands 36 Montserrat
37 Turks and Caicos Islands
38 Guadeloupe, Martinique
22 Countries of the
Caribbean region
1 The Bahamas 2 Turks and Caicos Islands
3 British Virgin Islands 4 Anguilla
5 Saint Martin / Sint Maarten 6 St Kitts and Nevis
7 Antigua and Barbuda 8 Montserrat
9 Guadeloupe 10 Martinique 11 Barbados
12 St Vincent and the Grenadines
13 Trinidad and Tobago 14 Puerto Rico
15 US Virgin Islands 16 Dominica 17 St Lucia
18 Netherlands Antilles 19 Grenada 20 Aruba
21 Venezuela 22 Brazil 23 Guyana 24 Suriname
25 French Guiana 26 USA 27 Mexico 28 Cuba
29 Cayman Islands 30 Jamaica 31 Haiti
32 Dominican Republic 33 Belize 34 Honduras
35 Nicaragua 36 Guatemala 37 El Salvador
38 Costa Rica 39 Panama 40 Colombia
41 Montserrat 42 Dominica 43 Grenada
44 Barbados 45 Trinidad 46 St Vincent
47 Antigua 48 Saint Martin / Sint Maarten
49 Guadeloupe 50 St Kitts 51 Jamaica
52 Anguilla 53 Nevis 54 St Lucia
55 Dominican Republic/Haiti 56 Cuba
20 warming 21 parliament and government,
non-government organisations and volunteers,
international organisations 22 Wildlife Protection
23 Heritage
28 Game box
The 30 joined-up dots represent Guadeloupe.
Correct Windward Islands flag is the one for
St Lucia
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4 Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St Maarten,
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6 Dominican Republic 7 St Martin 8 Guyana
9 St Vincent 10 Jamaica 11 Cayman Islands
12 Guyana 13 Guyana, Haiti, Montserrat, Belize
14 Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, US Virgin
Islands 15 Guyana, Jamaica 16 Jamaica
17 46,156,000 18 1972.5 19 30
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1 100, 000 1,750,000 2 14 3 January
4 petroleum 5 March 6 increased 7 1750 8 200
9 75 10 rural 11 USA 12 small 13 300,000
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25 Photographs
1 Air Jamaica 2 coffee beans 3 in boxes
4 cannon, for defence 5 Asia, Africa, Europe
6 beaches, cruises, history, volcanic eruption,
carnival, sport, nature reserves/bird sanctuaries
7 dredging, mining, sieving
26 Environment
1 reefs 2 rainforest 3 wetlands 4 dry bush
5 reefs 6 reefs 7 rainforest 8 dry bush
9 dry bush 10 wetlands 11 sea 12 wetlands
13 extinction 14 rehabilitated 15 waste
16 plutonium 17 trees 18 soil 19 desertification
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29 Caribbean test
1 A 2 B 3 C 4 C 5 B 6 B 7 D 8 A 9 C 10 A
11 A 12 A 13 C 14 B 15 A 16 A 17 C 18 D
19 C 20 D
30 Continents
1 Asia 2 Africa 3 North America
4 South America 5 Europe 6 Antarctica
7 Oceania 8 North America 9 Oceania
10 Europe 11 Africa 12 South America 13 Asia
14 192 15 53 16 all countries 17 149.6
18 Venus 19 Jupiter 20 one year
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31 North America
1 USA 2 Canada 3 Mexico 4 Guatemala
5 Belize 6 Honduras 7 El Salvador 8 Nicaragua
9 Costa Rica 10 Panama 11 Greenland
12 Rocky 13 Appalachian
32 South America
1 Ecuador 2 Colombia 3 Venezuela 4 Guyana
5 Suriname 6 French Guiana 7 Brazil 8 Bolivia
9 Paraguay 10 Uruguay 11 Argentina 12 Chile
13 Peru 14 Andes
33 Africa
1 Algeria 2 Libya 3 Egypt 4 Côte d’Ivoire
5 Ghana 6 Nigeria
7 Democratic Republic of Congo 8 Sudan
9 Ethiopia 10 Kenya 11 Uganda 12 Tanzania
13 Zambia 14 Angola 15 Namibia
16 South Africa 17 Zimbabwe 18 Mozambique
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34 Europe
1 Belgium 2 Netherlands 3 Luxembourg
4 France 5 Germany 6 Italy 7 UK 8 Ireland
9 Denmark 10 Spain 11 Portugal 12 Czech
Republic 13 Austria 14 Sweden 15 Finland
16 Estonia 17 Latvia 18 Lithuania 19 Poland
20 Hungary 21 Slovakia 22 Slovenia
23 Cyprus 24 Malta 25 Bulgaria 26 Romania
27 Greece 28 Norway 29 Switzerland
30 Russian Federation 31 Belarus 32 Ukraine
33 Moldova 34 Turkey 35 Iceland 36 Albania
37 Macedonia 38 Serbia 39 Montenegro
40 Bosnia-Herzegovina 41 Croatia
35 Asia
1 Russian Federation 2 China 3 Japan
4 South Korea 5 Vietnam 6 Indonesia
7 Philippines 8 India 9 Pakistan 10 Iran
11 Iraq 12 Saudi Arabia 13 Turkey 14 Syria
15 Israel 16 Ural 17 Himalaya 18 Ganges
19 Chang Jiang, Yangtze
20 China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam 21 Indus
36 Oceania
1 Great Barrier Reef 2 Pacific 3 Indian
4 Indonesia 5 two 6 2228 7 Australia
8 Papua New Guinea 9 New Zealand 10 Fiji
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37 The world’s capital cities
and towns
1 Canberra 2 Wellington 3 Port Moresby
4 Port Vila 5 Harare 6 New Delhi 7 Beijing
8 Kuala Lumpur 9 Montevideo 10 Managua
11 Brazil 12 Suriname 13 Indonesia 14 Libya
38 The world’s oceans and seas
1 Atlantic 2 Indian 3 Pacific 4 Arctic
5 Caribbean 6 Mexico 7 North
8 Mediterranean 9 Guinea 10 Bengal
11 Europe, Africa 12 Indian 13 Arctic
14 Asia, Oceania 15 Baltic 16 Black
17 Caspian 18 Victoria 19 Eyre 20 Great
39 Time zones
1 24 2 15 3 shape 4 one hour 5 earlier
6 12 noon 7 2 8 4 9 12 noon 10 5 am
11 noon 12 3 pm 13 9 pm 14 12 midnight
15 10.30 am 16 3.00 am 17 1.00 am
18 0400 19 1600 20 2100
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6 Ethiopia 7 Uganda
41 World test
1 D 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 A 6 C 7 D 8 A 9 D 10 D
11 B 12 B 13 A 14 C 15 B 16 C 17 D 18 C
19 A 20 A