Mapping the Coordinate Plane

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Coordinate planes, like maps, are used to find the exact location of a place of interest. We use ordered pairs, (x, y), to determine where on the coordinate plane each point is located. Follow the directions below to plot different Social Studies concepts and locate them on the coordinate plane.

1. Label all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

2. Label the x-axis and y- axis.

3. Plot and label the following Tribes on the map:

Inuit (6, 7) Lakota (0, -1) Iroquois (11½ , 1)

Kwakiutl (-9, 5) Pueblo (-8, 0)

4. List the quadrant that each Tribe falls in or the axis that it falls on:

Inuit ______Lakota ______Iroquois ______

Kwakiutl ______Pueblo ______

5. The following states are plotted on the map. Please give the ordered pair for each.

G: Georgia ______M: Massachusetts

P: Pennsylvania ______T: Texas______

I: Idaho ______R: New Mexico ______

N: Nebraska V: Jamestown, VA ______

6. List the states from problem 5 that fall into each of the quadrants. If a state falls in more than one quadrant than write it under both quadrants. (For example, California would be written under Quadrant II and Quadrant III.)

Quadrant I Quadrant II Quadrant III Quadrant IV

7. Name the bodies of water and their ordered pairs for the 3 bodies of water labeled on the map by the following letters:

8. In what quadrant can you find the capital of the United States?

9. Which point on the map represents the Rocky Mountains?

10. Which axis does Texas cross?

11. Match the following cities with their descriptions.

A. settled in northeast North America in the Eastern Woodlands

B. warned colonists of British arrival

C. first permanent English settlement in North America (1607)

D. settled by debtors

E. homeland includes the Pacific Northwest coast

F. major author of the Declaration of Independence

G. commander of the Continental Army

H. settled in present-day Alaska and northern Canada

I. settled by Puritans

J. settled by Quakers

K. settled in the interior of the US, area called the Great Plains

L. settled in the Southwest in present-day New Mexico

and Arizona

_____ Inuit

_____ Kwakiutl

_____ Lakota

_____ Pueblo

_____ Iroquois

_____ Massachusetts

_____ Pennsylvania

_____ Georgia

_____ Jamestown

_____ Paul Revere

_____ Thomas Jefferson

_____ George Washington

*Bonus Question*

What quadrant can you find the river that was explored by Lewis and Clark?

What is the name of this river?

What is the name of the point located at (0, 0)? ______