Maps

True or False: Humans can affect the environment, but the environment can't affect humans.

• True

• False

What is a cartographer?

• A person who makes maps

• A person who pushes a cart

• A type of map

• Another name for a geographer

Imaginary lines that run from left to right are an example of what?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Region

• Coordinates

Imaginary lines that run up and down on a globe are called what?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Place

• Region

The Equator is an example of what kind of line?

• Latitude

• Longitude

What is the name of the line of longitude that separates the globe into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Longitude

What does a map title tell the reader?

• What the map is about

• What the symbols means on the map

• How far one place is from another

• north, south, east, west

What does the legend on a map tell the reader?

• What the map is all about

• what the symbols on the map mean

• shows the cardinal directions

• used to measure distance on a map

What is the purpose of the compass rose?

• tells what the map is all about

• gives information on what the symbols mean on the map

• shows the cardinal directions

• used to measure distance on the map

Which of the following is NOT a cardinal direction?

• north

• northwest

• south

• east