This shows the cardinal directions (N, S, E, W) on a map.
What is the compass rose?
100
Lines of longitude measure this.
What is distance East and West of the Prime Meridian?
100
This is the main reason that all mapmakers must distort certain parts of a map when creating a projection.
What is it's impossible to perfectly project a sphere onto a flat surface?
100
Use the Europe map for this question. Find the city located at 37° N, 24° E. Include its country in your answer as well.
What is Athens, Greece?
100
This is the technical name of a mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
200
Use the Africa Map for this question. Which city is further North, Nairobi, Kenya or Kampala, Uganda? Then, determine how many miles apart the two cities are.
What is Kampala, Uganda and 380 miles?
200
This is where lines of latitude meet.
What is nowhere? (They don't meet, they stay parallel).
200
This map projection distorts the shape of landmasses.
What is the Peters Projection?
200
Use the Asia map for this question. Which of these three cities is furthest West: Paris, London, Barcelona?
What is London?
200
Use the Middle East Map for this question. Find Istanbul, Turkey @ 42 N, 28 E and Damascus, Syria @ 33 N, 36 E. Then, use the scale to determine how many KILOMETERS apart they are.
What is 1,092.5 kilometers?
300
Use the Africa Map for this question. This is the name of the group of islands located around 39 N, 28 W.
What are the Azores Islands?
300
True or False: 60° E and 60° W are the same amount of distance from the Prime Meridian.
What is True?
300
These two map projections would be best for navigation by sea.
What are the Mercator and Robinson Projections?
300
Use the Asia Map for this question. Find the city located at 38°N, 126°E. Include the country in your answer.
What is Pyongyang, North Korea?
300
According to "Vsauce", Greenland could fit inside of Africa this many times.
What is fourteen?
400
Use the Europe Map for this question. Find the capital of the country of Hungary, as well as its coordinates.
What is Budapest, and 47 N, 18 E?
400
The equator divides the earth into these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
400
Name the two main problems with the Goode-Homolosine Projection?
What are major oceans are cut into pieces and Greenland and Antarctica are cut into pieces?
400
Use the Asia map for this question. Find the city that is less than 250,000 people that is located at 34°N, 62°E. Include the country in your answer.
What is Herat, Afghanistan?
400
On average, this many people a year are killed by freshwater snails.
What is 10,000 people?
500
Use the Asia Map for this question. Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, located in the tiny Asian country of Nepal. Find the coordinates of this mountain, as well as it's height in feet.
What are 28 N, 87 E, and 29,028 feet?
500
This is the name of the line of longitude at 180 Degrees (opposite side of the Prime Meridian)
What is the International Date Line?
500
Name the projections that distort the size of landmasses near the poles.
What are all four projections?
500
Refer to the Europe Map for this question. Find a mountain peak in the Western Hemisphere that is over 4,500 feet tall, as well as the country it resides in. You can use the legend to help you see the symbol this map uses for a mountain peak.
What is Mt. Hekla in Iceland (4,892 ft.)
500
Use the Africa map or either of the World maps to solve this problem. The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are two important lines of latitude that contain the area of the world known as "The Tropics" between them. How many degrees of distance are between the two lines?