Map Skills Quiz

The International Date Line is directly opposite the Prime Meridian.

True or false: The International Date Line is in the Atlantic Ocean.

Which line divides northern and southern hemispheres?

What is the purpose of a map key?

The equator splits the earth into these two hemispheres...

Which line divides eastern and western hemispheres?

True or false: The equator is an imaginary line at the center of the Earth.

True or false: A globe is flat.

What shape is a globe?

What happens when you cross the International Date Line?

What line runs the North Pole to the South Pole?

What does the prime meridian represent?

How does temperature change near the equator?

True or false: The International Date Line is a straight line.

The Prime Meridian splits the earth into these hemispheres...

What does a map scale compare?

What does a map key show?

What are the four cardinal directions?