Map Skills/Geography Questions

What is this object known as?

• map symbol
• map key
• map scale
• compass rose

What Continent do you live on?

• South America
• Europe
• North America
• Australia

The four main points of the compass North, South, East, and West.

• Compass Rose

• Cardinal Directions

• Intermediate Directions

• Map Scale

Lines of ______ measure how far from the equator a place is located?

• Longitude

• Latitude

Lines of Longitude measure how far from the _______ a place is located.

• Equator

• International Date Line

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

The invisible line at 0 degrees latitude is called the ________. 

• International Date Line

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Arctic Circle

The equator breaks the Earth into what two hemispheres?

• Eastern and Southern

• Northern and Southern

• Western and Eastern

• Northern and Western

The Prime Meridian separates the Earth into what two hemispheres?

• Northern and Southern

• Western and Eastern

• Northern and Eastern

• Southern and Western

Antarctica, Australia, and most of South America are in what hemisphere? 

• Northern 
• Southern 
• Western 
• Eastern

North and South America are in what hemisphere?

• Northern
• Southern
• Western
• Eastern