Longitude and Latitude Quiz

What are the invisible lines used for navigation that intersect at specific points?

• Latitude and Longitude

• Long and Wide

• Equator and Prime Meridian

• North and South

What do longitude lines separate?

• North and South

• East and West

• Up and Down

• Left and Right

What is the line at 0 degrees longitude called?

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

What do latitude lines separate?

• Up and Down

• North and South

• Left and Right

• East and West

What is the line at 0 degrees latitude called?

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Cancer

What are the two halves of the globe called?

• Quadrants

• North and South

• East and West

• Hemispheres

What does 'hemisphere' mean?

• One-fourth of a globe

• One-third of a globe

• Half of a globe

• One-fifth of a globe

What are the coordinates of a point at 20 degrees north and 30 degrees east?

• 20 degrees north and 30 degrees west

• 20 degrees south and 30 degrees west

• 20 degrees south and 30 degrees east

• 20 degrees north and 30 degrees east

What is the unit of measure used to tell how far away from the center we are?

• Degrees

• Miles

• Inches

• Kilometers

What do longitude and latitude lines help us do?

• Navigate the world

• Measure temperature

• Predict the weather

• Find buried treasure