Geography and Map Skills Quiz

Patterns on a map or globe that helps to pinpoint an exact location of a place.

• Global Grid

• Hemisphere

• Equator

• Compass Rose

The study of the Earth’s environment & how it shapes people’s lives and how Earth is in turn shaped by people’s activities

• Geography

• Cardinal directions

• Cartographer

• Lines of latitude

The main directions on a compass rose; north, south, east, west.

• Cardinal directions

• Intermediate directions

• Compass rose

• Scale

The middle directions on a compass rose; northeast (NE), southeast (SE), northwest (NW), southwest (SW).

• Cardinal directions

• Intermediate directions

• Lines of latitude

• Lines of longitude

A.K.A. parallels; run east & west; measure distance north & south of the equator.

• Lines of latitude

• Lines of longitude

• Legend

• Scale

A.K.A. meridians; run north & south; measure distance east & west of the prime meridian

• Lines of longitude

• Lines of Latitude

• Hemisphere

• Global grid

Map maker.

• Cartogropher

• Archaeologist

• Excavator

• Ninja

Half of a sphere; The Earth is divided into 4 hemispheres= northern, southern, eastern, western

• Hemisphere

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Legend

Also Known As (A.K.A.) map key; tells what the symbols on the map stand for

• Legend

• Compass Rose

• Geography

• Cartographer

Tells direction on a map.

• Compass Rose

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Cartographer