Map Skills

Question 1

What explains the symbols used on a map, symbols, may be colors, patterns, lines or other marks.

Accepted Answer

Map key or legend

Question 2

What are the Intermediate Directions?

Accepted Answer

North, South, West, East, North East, North West, South East, South West

Question 3

What continent is the United States located on?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 4

What tells the subject of a map?

Accepted Answer

Map Title

Question 5

What line divides the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Equator

Question 6

What hemisphere is the United States located in?

Accepted Answer

Northern, Western

Question 7

These lines are called meridians and run from the north pole to the south pole, they are...

Accepted Answer

Lines of Longitude

Question 8

What parallel lines are imaginary and run east to west? T

Accepted Answer

Lines of Latitude

Question 9

What are the cardinal directions?

Accepted Answer

North, South, East, West

Question 10

What kind of map shows cities, countries states and borders?

Accepted Answer

Political Map

Question 11

What is used to compare a distance on a map to a distance in the real world?

Accepted Answer

Map Scale

Question 12

What kind of map shows how an area looked long ago in the past/

Accepted Answer

historical map

Question 13

What invisible line divides the western hemisphere from the eastern hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Prime Meridian

Question 14

Which map shows the kind of land in an area; like mountains, hills, and bodies of water?

Accepted Answer

Physical Map

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