Map Skills Review

A tool that shows readers what symbols on a map mean is called the _________.

• Title

• Compass Rose

• Map Key

• Scale

The ____________ informs readers of what the map is about.

• Map Key

• Title

• Scale

• Compass Rose

The __________ is a tool of measurement that mapmakers use to fit a certain area onto a map.

• Scale

• Title

• Compass Rose

• Map Key

True or False: A map legend is the same as a map key.

• True

• False

North, South, East, and West are ________ directions.

• Cardinal

• Intermediate

• Specific

• Regular

Which tool would you find directions listed?

• Scale

• Map Key

• Title

• Compass Rose

Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest are called _________ directions.

• Cardinal

• Intermediate

• Regular

• Irregular

The zero degree line of latitude is called the ___________.

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

The zero degree line of longitude is called the ________.

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

The equator creates which two hemispheres?

• Northern and Western

• Southern and Eastern

• Northern and Southern

• Eastern and Western