Map Skills Test

tells what the map is about

• compass rose
• map scale
• map title
• map key/legend

compares distance on a map with distance in the real world

• map scale
• map title
• map key/legend
• map grid

a small map within a larger map; it can show a detailed part of the map at a larger scale or show the map as part a larger geographic area

• map key/legend
• map grid
• map title
• inset map

a geographic region in which the same standard time is kept

• time zone
• hemisphere
• map grid
• equator

the line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th meridian

• prime meridian
• international date line
• time zone
• equator

imaginary lines that run east/west and measure distances north/south of the equator

• lines of longitude
• lines of latitude

an imaginary line with a latitude of 0° that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres

• equator
• prime meridian

imaginary lines that run north/south and measure distances east/west of the prime meridian

• lines of longitude
• lines of latitude

an imaginary line with a longitude of 0° that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres

• equator
• prime meridian

What is the term for one half of the Earth, divided by either the equator or a meridian?

• latitude

• hemisphere

• continent

• axis