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Lines of lattitude and longitude

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the flat picture of the earth called?

a)

grid

b)

map

c)

continents

d)

globe

2.

What is the shape of the earth?

a)

square

b)

sphere

c)

circle

d)

flat

3.
What is the name of a 3D sphere of the Earth.
a)
Map
b)
Globe
c)
Earth
d)
Ball
4.
What are the lines that go from North to South on a map called?
a)
longitude 
b)
latitude
c)
north lines
d)
long lines
5.
Lines of longitude are what type of lines?
a)
vertical
b)
horizontal 
c)
parallel 
6.
What is the name of the line at zero degrees latitude?
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian 
c)
center of the earth
d)
0
7.
Lines of Latitude are what type of lines?
a)
horizontal 
b)
vertical 
c)
intersecting
8.
What are the lines called that go from east to west on a map?
a)
Latitude 
b)
Longitude 
c)
Short lines
d)
horizontal 
9.
Lines of latitude divide the world into what two hemispheres?
a)
East and West
b)
North and South
c)
South and West
d)
North and East
10.
What is the name of the line of latitude that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
a)
Equator 
b)
Prime Mandarin 
c)
Center 
d)
Tropic of Cancer 
11.
What  is the name of the line at 66.5 degrees north?
a)
Arctic Circle
b)
Tropic of Cancer
c)
Equator
d)
Antarctic Circle
12.
What  is the name of the line at 23.5 degrees south?
a)
Arctic Circle
b)
Tropic of Cancer
c)
Tropic of Capricorn 
d)
Antarctic Circle
13.
What  is the name of the line at 23.5 degrees north?
a)
Arctic Circle
b)
Tropic of Cancer
c)
Tropic of Capricorn 
d)
Antarctic Circle
14.
What is the job of a compass rose?
a)
to tell direction
b)
art on a map
c)
tell you where to start
d)
so the way
15.
What is the name of the object in the picture?
a)
map scale
b)
measure tape
c)
measuring line
16.
What is the name of the object in the picture?
a)
map scale
b)
measure tape
c)
measuring line
17.
The Northern and Southern halves of the world are known as...
a)
Meridians
b)
Lattitudes
c)
Longitudes
d)
Hemispheres
18.
The equator is at what degree of latitude?
a)
90* N
b)
0*
c)
45*S
d)
90*S
19.
Lines of Latitude can be measured up to what degree?
a)
150 degrees
b)
180 degrees
c)
90 degrees
d)
100 degrees
20.
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are what type of lines?
a)
Latitude lines
b)
International Date lines
c)
Longitude lines
d)
Meridian lines
21.
Lines of ______ measure how far from the equator a place is located?
a)
Longitude
b)
Latitude
22.
a)
The map show the lines of longitude.
b)
The map shows the lines of latitude.
23.
a)
The map shows lines of longitude.
b)
The map shows lines of latitude.
24.
To locate a place on the earth, you need to look at...
a)
where the lines of latitude and longitude meet
b)
the lines of latitude only
c)
the lines of longitude only
d)
the compass rose
25.

Northern half of the earth is known as the _____________________ and the southern half is known as the ___________________

a)

Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere

b)

Eastern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere

c)

Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere

d)

Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere

26.

What are meridian or longitude

a)

The lines running from North pole to the South poles

b)

The lines running from North pole to the West poles

c)

The lines running from east pole to the South poles

d)

The lines running from North pole to the East poles

27.

Equator is an

a)

imaginary rectangular line

b)

imaginary straight line

c)

imaginary triangular line

d)

imaginary circular line

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