Map Skills Task Cards

What feature tells you what the symbols on a map represent?

• legend or key

• scale

• compass rose

• equator

What feature on a map shows you cardinal directions?

• legend

• scale

• compass rose

• equator

What is the name or the imaginary horizontal lines that circle the world?

• longitude

• dateline

• meridian

• latitude

What is the name of the imaginary vertical lines that circle the world?

• longitude

• dateline

• legends

• latitude

What is the name of the Earth's latitude with the largest circumference? (0 degrees latitude)

• legend

• prime meridian

• scale

• equator

How many continents are there?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

What is the name of the Earth's latitude that lies at 23 degrees south?

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian

What is the name of the Earth's latitude that lies at 23 degrees north?

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Capricorn

What continent is Ohio located on?

• Europe

• South America

• North America

• Australia

Which continents make up the Western Hemisphere?

• North America an Europe

• Europe, Australia and Africa

• North America and Antartica

• North America and South America