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Maths Quiz - Position 2 (Very Easy) (Questions)

Welcome to the second of our Very Easy Eleven Plus maths quizzes on Position. In the first we introduced you to the points on a compass. In this one we see how well you can remember them.

One way to remember the compass points is to imagine a clock face and remember this phrase:

Never Eat Soggy Worms – the first letters tell you the four directions, starting at 12 o’clock with North, then 3 o’clock is East, 6 o’clock is South and 9 o’clock is West.

There are 90^o between each point on a compass, 180^o between opposite points, and it’s 360^o all the way around – a full rotation.

Now let’s see whether you can navigate your way through this quiz – good luck!

If you face East and turn through 90^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you face South and turn through 270^o clockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you face West and turn through 360^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you face West and turn through 450^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you face West, what is the compass point directly behind you?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you face South, what is the compass point directly behind you?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun is always in which part of the sky?

[ ]	The Northern part
[ ]	The Eastern part
[ ]	The Southern part
[ ]	The Western part

At dawn, when the Sun rises, which direction will your shadow be pointing?

[ ]	North
[ ]	South
[ ]	East
[ ]	West

Simon and William are standing next to each other. Simon is facing South and William is facing West. If Simon turns anticlockwise through 90^o, what angle must William turn through to face in the same direction as Simon?

[ ]	90^o clockwise
[ ]	90^o anticlockwise
[ ]	180^o
[ ]	360^o

10.

Nelly and Elsie are standing next to each other. Nelly is facing North and Elsie is facing East. What angle must Nelly turn through to face in the OPPOSITE direction to Elsie?

[ ]	360^o
[ ]	270^o clockwise
[ ]	180^o
[ ]	90^o clockwise

Maths Quiz - Position 2 (Very Easy) (Answers)

If you face East and turn through 90^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[x]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

'Anticlockwise' means that you turn (rotate) in the opposite direction to which the hands of the clock turn. 90^o = a quarter turn

If you face South and turn through 270^o clockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[x]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

'Clockwise' means that you turn (rotate) in the direction in which the hands of the clock turn. 270^o = three lots of 90^o or three-quarters of a turn

If you face West and turn through 360^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[x]	West

If you turn through 360^o, you will ALWAYS end up facing the same direction no matter which way you turn

If you face West and turn through 450^o anticlockwise, what direction will you be facing now?

[ ]	North
[ ]	East
[x]	South
[ ]	West

'Anticlockwise' means that you turn (rotate) in the opposite direction to which the hands of the clock turn. 450^o = five lots of 90^o

If you face West, what is the compass point directly behind you?

[ ]	North
[x]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

Make a little drawing and you will see that it is East

If you face South, what is the compass point directly behind you?

[x]	North
[ ]	East
[ ]	South
[ ]	West

Make a little drawing and you will see that it is North

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun is always in which part of the sky?

[ ]	The Northern part
[ ]	The Eastern part
[x]	The Southern part
[ ]	The Western part

If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, the Sun is always in the Northern part of the sky

At dawn, when the Sun rises, which direction will your shadow be pointing?

[ ]	North
[ ]	South
[ ]	East
[x]	West

The Sun rises in the East, so shadows at dawn will be pointing West

[ ]	90^o clockwise
[ ]	90^o anticlockwise
[x]	180^o
[ ]	360^o

'Anticlockwise' means that you turn (rotate) in the opposite direction to which the hands of the clock turn. Simon turns through 90^o (= a quarter turn) and ends up facing East. William will have to turn 180^o, either clockwise or anticlockwise

10.

Nelly and Elsie are standing next to each other. Nelly is facing North and Elsie is facing East. What angle must Nelly turn through to face in the OPPOSITE direction to Elsie?

[ ]	360^o
[x]	270^o clockwise
[ ]	180^o
[ ]	90^o clockwise

Elsie is facing East, so Nelly needs to rotate until she is facing West. To do that, she can turn 270^o clockwise or 90^o anticlockwise