Mapping Shoreline and the Seattle area
Name: ______________________________________ SS7: ____ Date: _____________________________
Complete the following questions for Map 1:
Getting started
1. Put a compass rose next to Map 1.
2. Draw a circle around the name of Shoreline.
3. Label Puget Sound. What is the name of the lake between Bellevue and Seattle?
Relative location
1. What direction is Seattle from Shoreline?
2. What direction is Edmonds from Shoreline?
3. What direction is Olympia from Shoreline?
4. What direction is Olympic National Park from Shoreline?
Movement
1. Draw two routes for someone to take from Everett to Tacoma. About how far is it (use the scale)?
2. There is a ferry route from Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula to Victoria, on Vancouver Island. Draw this route. About how far
is it across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Port Angeles to Vancouver?
3. Some people who live on Bainbridge Island work in Seattle? What would be the best way for them to get to work?
4. If someone was driving from Seattle to North Bend, what road would they take? About how far is it?
Region
1. Victoria is in another country. What country is it in (Mexico or Canada)?
2. Bellevue is an area called the “Eastside.” Why is this region called that?
3. What is the name of another city that might be in this region (hint: pick a town/city near Bellevue)?
4. Shoreline includes the northern border of King County. Snohomish County is just north of King County. Name a city in Snohomish
County.
Human/Environment Interaction
1. How does the building of major highways like I-5 and I-90 represent H/E-I?
2. A higher percentage of people own boats in Seattle than any other place in the country. How does this represent H/E-I?
3. Almost the whole Puget Sound area was thick with trees before Arthur Denny founded Seattle in 1851. The dark areas on the map
are forests. How have humans adapted nature to their needs in the past 150 years in the Puget Sound region?
Map 1 is on the back side:
Map 2
1. Draw a compass rose on the map (it will help you answer the questions).
2. Label Puget Sound and Lake Washington on your map.
3. The northern border of Shoreline is 244th St. SW on the West side of I-5. Draw a line here. To the north of this border is Edmonds,
label Edmonds.
4. The southern border of Shoreline is 145th St. Draw a line along this border. To the south of this line is Seattle. Label Seattle.
Location
1. Circle Albert Einstein Middle School on the map.
2. Bartell’s is on the SE corner of 175th and Aurora N. in Shoreline. Put a B at this location. Is this relative or absolute location?
3. Fred Meyer’s is across the street. Put FM there. Is this relative or absolute location?
4. What label on the map can you find at the intersection of NE 175th St. and 15th Ave. NE?
5. How far is it from Albert Einstein Middle School to Puget Sound?
6. What direction is Puget Sound in?
Movement
1. If you could fly, what direction would you go from Einstein to Shorewood HS? Draw a line. How far is it?
Population Density
1. Population density is a measure of how many people live in a given area (say the size of a football field or a square mile).
2. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.7 square miles. And, as of 2000, the city of Shoreline
had 53,000. That is 4,530/square mile (53,000/11.7). The density of Seattle is 7,361 people/square mile. Colfax, in Eastern
Washington (near WSU), is 1.7 square miles and had 2,800 people in 2000. Imagine that each box below is a square mile (or a
football field). For each city/town, draw one person (stick figures work) in the box representing its population density. Seattle
should be represented by about 7.5 stick figures.
Shoreline – 4,530/1,000 = 4.5 Seattle – 7,361/1,000 = 7.5 Colfax – 1,647/1,000 = 1.5
Map 2