The document appears to be a geography test on map skills for students in Year 7 at the International School of Toulouse. It contains 35 multiple choice and short answer questions testing students' abilities to interpret map symbols, use scales, calculate distances, find grid references, identify locations, and describe terrain features using contour lines. Students are instructed to refer to a laminated map of Cambridge and surrounding areas as they complete the test.

1. Year 7 – Map Skills Test @ IST Geography
Name __________________________
Form _________
You should have a laminated map of Cambridge and the surrounding area. This
map shows you a small part of the South of England. You will also need a ruler
and a pencil.
You will be tested on all of your map skills that you have learnt. Are you ready?
Question 1 – Look carefully at the symbols above and then write what they
represent in the space beneath.
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2 ___________________________
3 ___________________________
4 ___________________________
5 ___________________________
6 ___________________________
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8 ___________________________
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10 ___________________________

2. Question 11
Look at the scale line on the map of Cambridge. How many centimeters
represents 1KM on the line?
Answer ___________________________
Question 12
How many centimeters would 3.5KM measure on the scale line?
Answer ___________________________
Question 13
One KM is how many metres?
Answer ___________________________
Question 14
15,000 metres is how many KM?
Answer ___________________________
Question 15
What is the straight line distance between Rowley’s Hill (42 49) and the school
(48 49)?
Answer ___________________________
Question 16
What is the straight line distance between the church in Foxton (41 48) and the
church in Newton (43 49)?
Answer ___________________________
Question 17
What is the straight line distance between the Public Phone (46 48) and the
Public House (48 49)?
Answer ___________________________

3. Question 18
Give the four figure grid reference of the bus station in the centre of Cambridge.
Answer ___________________________
Question 19
Give the four figure grid reference for junction 11 of the M1 (Clue, there could be
more than one!)
Answer ___________________________
Question 20
Which town would you find in 46 52?
Answer ___________________________
Question 21
What mode of transport would you find in 48 58?
Answer ___________________________
Question 22
Name the farm in 42 57
Answer ___________________________
Question 23
How many churches in 44 58?
Answer ___________________________
Question 24
What would you find here: 442 507?
Answer ___________________________
Question 25
What feature at 462 573?
Answer ___________________________

4. Question 26
Could you make a phone call at 467 482?
Answer ___________________________
Question 27
Which direction would you travel from Barton (40 55) to Trumpington Hall
(44 55)?
Answer ___________________________
Question 28
Which direction would you travel from Great Shelford (47 52) to Grantchester
(42 55)?
Answer ___________________________
Question 29
Which direction would you travel from Newton (44 49) to Foxton (41 48)
Answer ___________________________
Question 30
You are driving your car down to see your best friend Gaelle. You leave the
motorway at Junction 11 (43 53) and want to visit her home which is Charity
Farm (41 51). Write out the quickest route that you would take including
directions, roads and features that you may pass on route. Try to write about
five things here for 5 marks.
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5. Question 31
Name two different ways of showing height on maps:
Answer 1 ___________________________
Answer 2 ___________________________
Question 32
How high is the highest land in 40 51?
Answer ___________________________
Question 33
Describe the relief of the land in 43 56 in less than five words.
Answer _____________________________________________________
Question 34
Complete the sentence below:
The closer the __________ lines the __________________ the relief. The
further apart the ___________ lines, the ________________ the relief.
Question 35
Look closely at the contour
mountain on the right.
Label the following things in the
correct place on the diagram:
1. Summit
2. A gentler slope
3. The steepest slope
B
4. A valley
5. An area of land about 65
metres in height.
6. If you travelled from A – B
would you be going uphill or A
downhill?
Answer __________________