Map Skills

Tells you relationships of size on a map.

Which direction is Oklahoma from Texas?

A line of longitude dividing the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

What line is located at zero degrees longitude?

The first thing to look at on a map, graph or a chart. It tells what it is about.

What is the line that is located at zero degrees latitude?

Half of the world.

Imaginary lines running East and West across a map measuring distances North and South.

A line of latitude dividing the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

Imaginary lines running North and South, up and down a map measuring distances East and West.