1. Map Skills study guide

2. A _______ is a model of the earth in the shape of a sphere
Answer:
Globe

3. A ______ is a flat drawing of places on earth
Answer:
Map

4. A ___ ___ shows the cardinal and intermediate directions on a map or globe
Answer:
Compass Rose

5. The imaginary line of latitude around the middle of the earth, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres is called the _______
Answer:
Equator

6. Answers: Longitude Western and Eastern
The Prime Meridian is at __ ° and is a line of ______. It separates the earth into the _____ and ____ hemispheres.
Answers:
Longitude
Western and Eastern

7. Lines of ____ are also called parallels
Answer:
Latitude

8. To Which cardinal Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
North

9. To Which Cardinal Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
South

10. To Which intermediate Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
South
East

11. To Which Intermediate Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
North
West

12. To Which Intermediate Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
North
East

13. To Which cardinal Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
East

14. To Which cardinal Direction is the arrow pointing?
Answer:
West

15. What must you know to locate a particular place on the global grid?
Answer:
Degrees of
latitude
and
longitude

16. Name the rivers at points A, B, C, D, and E.F
Answers:
A. Colorado
B. Rio
Grande
C. Mississippi
D. Ohio
E. St.
Lawrence
F. Hudson C D A C B

17. Name mountain ranges A & B on the map below.
Answers:
Rocky Mountains
Appalachian
Mountains

18. Good luck on your map skills test!
Study hard!