Map Skills Vocab

Which map feature shows north, south, east, and west?

• title

• compass rose

• scale bar

• grid

What map feature consists of imaginary lines that help us determine location?

• Compass rose

• Title

• Scale Bar

• Grid

What explains the symbols and shading on a map?

• Legend or Key

• Title

• Grid

• Scale Bar

Which of the following tells you the type of map?

• Grid

• Title

• Compass Rose

• Grid

What shows you how much space on a map represents a real distance?

• Scale Bar

• Meridian

• Hemisphere

• Equator

What means half of the world?

• Parallel

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

• Hemisphere

Which of the following is an imaginary line at 0 degrees that runs from east to west and divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Hemisphere

• Equator

What is an imaginary line at 0 degrees that runs from north to south and divides the Earth in to the eastern and western hemispheres?

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Meridian

• Parallel

What imaginary lines run east to west? (hint: another name for them is parallel lines)

• Meridian

• Parallel

• Longitude

• Latitude

What imaginary line runs north to south? *hint: another name for them is meridian

• Latitude

• Parallel

• Longitude

• Meridian