Map Skills and Positioning Worksheet

What is the term for determining your exact location on a map?

• Course plotting

• Position fix

• Dead reckoning

• Back bearing

To locate a place on a map, which two coordinates should you find and plot?

• Altitude and depth

• Latitude and longitude

• Time and distance

• Grid square and scale

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Which instruments can be used to find latitude?

• Sextant

• Astrolabe

• Magnetometer

• Odometer

Historically, which coordinate was much more complicated to determine at sea?

• Latitude

• Longitude

Seagoing clocks (marine chronometers) were invented in which century?

• 1600s

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1900s

What kind of navigation systems were invented after World War II?

• Celestial

• Dead-reckoning

• Electronic

• Paper-chart

In modern positioning methods, what does GPS stand for?

• Global Positioning System

• Geographic Plotting Service

• Ground Pointing Satellite

• Global Pilot System

GPS uses the signals from 24 Earth what?

• Stations

• Satellites

• Telescopes

• Buoys

What on the map defines all the symbols and colors used on the map?

• Title

• Legend (key)

• Scale bar

• Compass rose

What does scale information show on a map?

• Direction of north

• Relationship between map distance and ground distance

• Elevation of terrain

• Time zones