Mapping Skills Review

The tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn define this climate zone of the world.

• Temperate Zone

• Tropical Zone

• Precipitation

• Polar Zone

North America is a...

• continent

• country

• state

• city

It is generally cool to bitterly cold in this part of the world.

• Temperate Zone

• Tropical Zone

• Tropical rainforests

• Polar Zone

This part of a map compares a unit of length on a map to the actual distance on earth.

• compass rose

• scale

• projection

• key/legend

These are imaginary lines that run north and south and measure distances east and west of the prime Meridian.

• lines of longitude

• parallels

• lines of latitude

• grid lines

Climate is affected by all of the following except:

• longitude

• latitude

• elevation (mountains)

• large bodies of water

The United States is in which two hemispheres of the world?

• northern and eastern

• northern and western

• southern and eastern

• southern and western

These are imaginary lines that run east and west, never intersect, and show distances north or south of the equator.

• meridians

• longitude

• latitude

• global grid

Which line divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres?

• Equator

• parallels

• Prime Meridian

• International Date Line

This is a way of showing the Earth's curved surface on a flat 2-D map.

• key/legend

• scale

• compass rose

• projection