Compass / Compass Rose
Maps
Latitude / Longitude / Lines
Tropics / Coordinates
Continents and Oceans
100

Which direction is number 1 on the compass rose?

What is NORTH

100

What quadrant of the globe is Asia in?

What is the NORTHEAST QUADRANT

100

Which way do lines of LATITUDE / PARALLELS run?

What is SIDE TO SIDE


100

What are the two tropics we have learned about called?

What is the TROPIC OF CAPRICORN AND TROPIC OF CANCER

100

How many continents are currently on Earth?

What is SEVEN

200

Which direction is number 5 on the compass rose?

What is SOUTH

200

What are types of maps we will be looking at this year (give me 3/5)

What is...

1. Tectonic

2. Topographic

3. Climate

4. Physical

5. Political

200

Which way do lines of LONGITUDE / MERIDIANS run?

What is UP AND DOWN

200

How do we record coordinates using the simple method?

What is DEGREES, DIRECTION

200

Have we always had the current amount of continents on Earth?

What is NO

300

Which direction is number 7 on the compass rose? 

What is WEST

300

What do topographic maps show? How?

What is the DIFFERENCE IN ELEVATION SHOWN BY CONTOUR LINES

300

What kind of line is the Equator? (Latitude or Longitude)

What is LATITUDE

300

What is a coordinate? (not an example - what is one)

What is a very specific location on Earth

300

Which continent is number 3? 

What is AFRICA

400

What direction is number 4 on the compass rose?

What is SOUTHEAST

400

What is the contour interval of this map?

What is 50

400

What type of line is the Prime Meridian?

What is LONGITUDE

400

How do we report out coordinates using the specific method? 

What is DEGREES, MINUTES, SECONDS, DIRECTION

400

What sea is letter C?

What is the INDIAN OCEAN

500

What direction is number 8 on the compass rose?

What is NORTHWEST

500

Is this a steep or small incline / hill? 

What is a STEEP INCLINE

500

What is the degree measurement of the Equator including direction?

What is 0o LATITUDE

500

Which tropic has summer occurring in the Southern Hemisphere? 

What is the TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

500

How much of our planet is water?

What is 71%

(about 97% of it is the ocean)

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