Map Skills Study Guide

1. What are the 7 seven continents? Asia, Antarctica, Europe, South America, North America, Africa, Australia

2. Where are the continents located?

3. What are the 5 oceans? Southern, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic

4. Where are the oceans located? See Above

5. What are the parts of the compass rose? 6. What are the cardinal directions? North, East, South, West

7. What are the intermediate directions? Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest

8. How do you convert years to century? Add 1 to the hundredth place and drop the ones and tens

9. How do you convert century to years? Subtract 1 from the hundredth place and add 2 zeroes

10. What direction do latitude lines run? East to West

11. What direction do latitude lines measure? North to South

12. What is the name of 0° latitude? Equator

13. What direction do longitude lines run? North to South

14. What direction do longitude lines measure? East to West

15. What is the name of 0° longitude? Prime Meridian

16. What are hemispheres? Half of the earth

17. What lines determine northern and southern hemisphere? Equator

18. What lines determine eastern and western hemisphere? Prime Meridian

19. Know how to find a location using latitude and longitude.

20. What do physical maps show? Mountains, seas, oceans, and other landforms

21. What do political maps show? States, countries, cities and boundaries

22. What does Absolute location show? The EXACT location

23. What does Relative location show? The location that is about or close to

24. Would you use Absolute location or Relative location to find latitude and longitude? Absolute

25. What is a map key? Area on the map used to identify symbols

26. What is the definition of distortion? Errors on a map

27. What is the purpose of scale? To find distance