Map Skills

Which answer shows all of
the Intermediate Directions?

• South, North, East, West
• North, Northeast, Northwest
• Northeast, Southeast, Northwest,
  Southwest
• South, Southeast, Southwest

Which answer is not a Cardinal
direction?

• North
• East
• Northeast
• South

Which of these answers is a grid pattern?

• Pattern of lines above the sun.

• Pattern of lines that move within the pull of the earth.

• Pattern of lines that criss cross.

• Pattern of lines that run north and south.

What does GPS stand for?

• Global Positioning Service

• Global Positioning System

• Global Parallel System

• Go Pass Something

A map that shows lakes, mountains and anything made by Earth is called a .....

• political map

• road map

• physical map

• atlas map

Why is the climate cold in Canada most of the year?

• It's has a major desert.

• Joey Votto lives there.

• Canada is far from the equator.

• Canada is close to the Antarctic Circle.

What IS NOT a part of most maps?

• Compass Rose
• Title
• Symbols/Key
• People

What is a map scale?

• a tool to measure distance
• a tool to tell direction
• a tool to start a fire
• a tool to build a house

The 0 degree latitude line that divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Prime Meridian
• time zone
• equator
• International Dateline

Lines that measure how far something is east or west of the Prime Meridian.

• Latitude

• Longitude

• International Dateline

• Hemisphere