R+ Lesson 2: Standard 7A: Interpreting Images and Maps

Read the excerpt below and follow the steps to use the map to answer the question.

John Snow was well known as a doctor in London. Though it had been some time since he’d last seen it, Snow recognized cholera immediately. Cholera struck in 1854. The Soho neighborhood of London where Snow lived was particularly hard hit. Between August 31 and September 10, more than 500 people perished in an area about the size of a city block. Suspecting that cholera fouled the drinking water, Snow began to look for the source. There were numerous water pumps in the neighborhood, but, in his visits to treat cholera victims, Snow noted that most of the sick people lived close to one particular pump on Broad Street. Snow spent the next few weeks interviewing everyone in the neighborhood to find out whether the victims had been in the habit of drinking from the Broad Street pump. He plotted the cholera deaths on a map and was able to demonstrate that approximately everyone in the area who had been struck with cholera had drunk from the pump.

What map clues (place names, directions, or distances) are provided in the text.

Look at the map shown in Image

Which helpful tools you see in the map. There may be more than one.

Put all of the information together to answer this question: People who died of cholera lived closest to the pump on

Read the excerpt below and follow the steps to use the map to answer the question.

The most famous person to travel deep into Antarctica was a Norwegian explorer named Roald Amundsen. Amundsen sailed through the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, and landed at the Bay of Whales on Antarctica. There he set up a base to launch his trip to the South Pole. In October 1911, Amundsen, his crew, and his team of 52 dogs set out on sleds. Two months later, Amundsen achieved his goal of becoming the first person to set foot on the South Pole. His trip from his base at the Bay of Whales to the South Pole and back to his base took 99 days.

What map clues (place names, directions, or distances) in the text?

Look at the map shown in Image 2:

Which helpful tools you see in the map.

Put all of the information together to answer this question: Amundsen’s trip from the Bay of Whales to the South Pole was approximately how far?