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What is the symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions?

• the legend
• line of latitude
• compass rose
• line of longitude

Lines of longitude are ...

• imaginary lines that run East-West around the earth
• imaginary lines that run North-South meeting at the North and South Poles
• Imaginary lines that show the area known as the Tropics
• imaginary lines that show state borders

The exact or nearly exact location of a place on Earth using degrees north/south and east/west

• Prime Meridian
• absolute location
• approximate location
• equator

The line of latitude that circles the middle of the Earth is called the...

• Tropic of Cancer
• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Equator

Earth's main line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England, separating the East & West Hemispheres

• equator
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Cancer

hemisphere means ...

• one quarter of the earth
• the whole earth
• half of the earth
• the core of the earth

How many named hemispheres are there?

• two
• four
• eight
• twelve

The weather patterns in one place over a long period of time is called

• water cycle
• precipitation
• rainfall
• climate

What imaginary line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• equator
• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Cancer
• Hawaiian Tropic

the southernmost point on the earth where the sun shines directly overhead

• Equator
• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn