Cardinal Directions
What are the four main cardinal directions?
North, South, East, West
What is the name of line at 0 degrees latitude?
What is the equator?
What is the name of the line at 0 degrees longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
Name one type of map that shows countries borders.
What is political?
What degrees is the equator? (include if it is latitude or longitude)
What is 0 degrees latitude?
What direction is halfway between North and East called?
What is Northeast?
Do latitude lines run horizontally or vetically?
What is horizontally?
Do longitude lines run vertically or horizontally?
What is vertically?
What type of map uses color to represent statistical data across regions?
What is choropleth?
What are the two invisible lines called right above and below the equator?
What is the Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn?
If you travel from the Equator toward the North Pole, which cardinal direction are you moving?
North
What is the latitude of the North Pole in degrees?
What is 90 degrees?
What longitude degree marks the farthest east or west by switching hemispheres?
What is 180 degrees?
What two map components help a reader understand direction and distance on a map?
What is compass rose and scale?
What hemisphere is is at 35 Degrees North located in?
What is the northern hemisphere?
A compass rose shows both cardinal and intermediate directions. Name all 4 intermediate directions.
What are Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest?
Latitude divided the earth in to what two hemispheres?
What is northern and southern hemispheres?
Longitude lines meet at which two points on Earth?
What are the North and South pole?
Give one reason a globe might be more accurate than a map.
Because a globe preserves true shapes, sizes, and distances without the distortion.
Explain in detail what a compass rose tells us.
A compass rose show both cardinal directions (North, south, east, west) as well as intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest). It is on maps to help the reader to determine direction when reading a the map.
On a map, if city A is southwest of city B, which compass quadrant would you find city A?
What is the lower left quadrant?
Explain why latitude lines are sometimes referred to as parallels?
What is because they are the same distance apart and never meet?
The Prime Meridian is 0° and starts east/west numbering; the International Date Line is near 180° and roughly separates East and West longitudes, together dividing Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Describe how scale on a map helps someone measure real-world distance.
The scale bar shows the ratio between map distance and real-world distance (e.g., 1 inch = 100 miles), allowing users to measure distances on the map and convert them to actual distances.
It is the Gulf of Guinea and it is where the equator and the prime meridian intersect.