World Map Directions

Study link for Map Test

With an atlas and white construction paper, create a world map. Color the oceans/seas blue and the continents alternating colors or by elevation. Your map must be neatly colored using colored pencils or crayon. Add a compass rose in the ocean and a map title at the top. Label with black fine tip marker the following items:

• Compass Rose
• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Southern Ocean
• North America
• South America
• Africa
• Australia
• Asia
• Europe
• Antarctica
•  Equator
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Mediterranean Sea
•  Black Sea
• Red Sea
• Caspian Sea 

You will be graded with the following scoresheet:

World Map Score Sheet

Name: 

World fills up paper/drawn accurately      /10

Waters/Lines/Continents Labeled           /20                       

Continents/Seas Colored neatly          /10

Title (Centered @ top of map)                   /4

Compass Rose                                     /4

Name(top right hand corner)                 /2

Total                                                        /50