Latitude vs Longitude
These are the four cardinal points on a compass.
What are North, South, East, and West?
The Prime Meridian passes through this city and country.
What is Greenwich, England?
A compass is mainly used for this purpose.
What is finding direction?
This part of the compass is used to place on a map and measure direction.
What is the base plate?
Declination is this difference between two north directions.
What is the angle difference between True North and Magnetic North?
These are the four intercardinal directions.
What are Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest?
Lines of longitude are also called these.
What are meridians?
Hiking and camping are examples of these activities that use a compass.
What are outdoor navigation activities?
This rotating part is used to set directions in degrees.
What is the rotating bezel?
Declination is important because it helps you do this.
What is travel in the correct direction?
Lines of latitude are also called these.
What are parallels?
Lines of latitude measure this.
What is how far north or south a place is from the Equator?
This direction is where the compass needle points.
What is Magnetic North?
This line is used to read the bearing in degrees.
What is the index line?
If you do not adjust for declination, this may happen.
What is you may go the wrong direction or get lost?
This line is located at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
This is the correct order for writing absolute location coordinates.
What is latitude first, then longitude?
A bearing is this.
What is a direction measured in degrees?
This arrow shows the direction you should walk or travel.
What is the direction of travel arrow?
This method uses multiple bearings to find your exact position.
What is triangulation?
Lines of longitude show this type of location.
What is how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian?
Cardinal and intercardinal directions are mainly used for this purpose.
What is describing the relative location of places?
The degrees on a compass range from this number to this number.
What is 0° to 360°?
“Red in the shed” means this.
What is the red needle is inside the orienting arrow?
You need at least this many landmarks for triangulation.
What are two or three landmarks?