O&M Vocab

Question 1

What is the opposite of North?

Answer 1

South

Question 2

What is the opposite of South?

Answer 2

North

Question 3

What is the opposite of West?

Answer 3

East

Question 4

What is the opposite of East?

Answer 4

West

Question 5

Name the 4 cardinal directions?

Answer 5

North, South, East, West

Question 6

How many turns in an I shape route?

Answer 6

0

Question 7

How many turns in an L shape route?

Answer 7

1

Question 8

How many turns in a U shape route?

Answer 8

2

Question 9

How many turns in a block shape route?

Answer 9

3-4

Question 10

Define Parallel

Answer 10

hallways or streets that never touch, run in the same direction

Question 11

Define Perpendicular

Answer 11

hallways or streets that intersect, always touch

Question 12

Define a stop sign

Answer 12

a street sign that walkers and drivers to stop

Question 13

Define crosswalk

Answer 13

designated safe place for pedestrians to walk across a street

Question 14

Define landmark

Answer 14

permanent marker in the environment or inside a building (example: elevator, stairs) that indicates your location

Question 15

Define clue

Answer 15

a smell, a noise, a visual in the environment or in a building that indicates your location, but not always permanent (example: PE room loud with students)

Question 16

What is a detectable warning?

Answer 16

red bumps on the sidewalk, warning you a street is ahead

Question 17

What does a ramp/downward slope on a sidewalk indicate?

Answer 17

warning a street is ahead

Question 18

What is a street?

Answer 18

a part of the environment for drivers

Question 19

What is a sidewalk?

Answer 19

a part of the environment for pedestrians/walkers to travel safely

Question 20

What is a house or building address?

Answer 20

a number that gives an exact location of a house or building for a person to find

Question 21

Describe a car moving toward and away from you?

Answer 21

example: toward: see a car moving to the front of body, away: hear a car moving away from the back of my body

Question 22

What is a traffic light?

Answer 22

automatically operated colored lights, typically red, yellow, and green, for controlling traffic at intersections and crosswalks.

Question 23

What is a street name?

Answer 23

identify for a street or road, usually forms part of an address

Question 24

What is a yield sign?

Answer 24

a sign that prepares drivers to stop if necessary to let a driver on another approach proceed

Question 25

What is the shape of a single block?

Answer 25

rectangle or square

Question 26

How many sides does a block have? How many corners?

Answer 26

sides: 4, corners: 4

Question 27

Name all four corners of a single block using cardinal directions?

Answer 27

NE, SE, NW, SW

Question 28

Create a single block on a tactile map

Answer 28

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 29

Create the shape of a sidewalk pattern at a corner

Answer 29

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 30

Travel clockwise on a map

Answer 30

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 31

Travel counterclockwise on a map

Answer 31

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 32

Travel around a single block and identify the direction of travel, parallel streets, and perpendicular streets

Answer 32

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 33

Create a map of a small, residential neighborhood

Answer 33

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 34

Create a map with a cul-de-sac, dead-end street, roundabout, parallel streets, perpendicular streets

Answer 34

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 35

Create a map with a plus intersection, T-intersection, and Y intersection

Answer 35

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 36

How many sides does a street have?

Answer 36

2

Question 37

True or false: North/south streets cross or intersect East/West streets?

Answer 37

True

Question 38

Create a map with a 1-way street, and a 2-way street

Answer 38

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 39

Create a map with a 2-way stop, 3-way stop, and 4-way stop

Answer 39

use tactile map or dry erase board

Question 40

When standing at an intersection, where is your parallel street? On the side of your body (right or left shoulder) or in front of your body (in front of your nose)?

Answer 40

side of your body, either running along the left or right shoulder

Question 41

Stand up and make a 45 degree turn

Answer 41

student moves

Question 42

Stand up and make a 90 degree turn

Answer 42

student moves

Question 43

Stand up and make a 180 degree turn

Answer 43

student moves

Question 44

Stand up and make a 360 degree turn

Answer 44

student moves

Question 45

What is a reference point?

Answer 45

stationary landmark, used can be used as a starting point before movement, and as a mark in the environment to know "where you are"