1. Welcome to the Map Skills Test Review Game!

2. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator

3. What are the names of the 4 hemispheres of the Earth?

4. Is the Tropic of Cancer north or south of the equator?

5. Name the four oceans of Earth according to size largest to smallest.
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Arctic

6. What is the northernmost point in the world called?
North Pole
90 degrees N latitude

7. What are the names of the 7 continents?
North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Australia
Antarctica

8. Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the equator?

9. Place the four cardinal directions on a compass rose
NORTH
WEST
EAST
SOUTH

10. What happens when we show the earth on a flat map?
The projection of the landmasses is distorted

11. Name different types of maps
Physical, Political, vegetation, street, satellite

12. “In the Year of our Lord”
A.D. means…
Anno Domini
“In the Year of our Lord”

13. Difference between absolute and relative location?
Absolute is EXACT location

14. How do we express absolute location?
Latitude and longitude

15. Europe, Africa and Antarctica
What continents does the Prime Meridian run thru?
Europe, Africa and Antarctica

16. Which continent would you be on if you traveled to 15 S latitude, 60 W longitude?
South America

17. 180 longitude
International Date Line

18. Directions of latitude
North, south

19. Directions of longitude
East, west

20. Geographical dictionary
What is a gazeteer?
Geographical dictionary

21. What shape is the earth?
sphere

22. Which lines are parallel?
latitude

23. Another name for longitude lines
meridians

24. Which comes first, latitude or longitude?

25. Which letter is closest to when Jesus was born?Z

26. What letter is closet to 12,000 BC?U

27. 40 N latitude and 20 E longitude puts you in which 2 hemispheres?
Northern, Eastern

28. Which city could be 20 S latitude 40 W longitude?
Rio de Janiero

29. If it is summer in Melbourne, what season is it in Detroit?
winter

30. Summer in Rio de Janeiro, season in Dar es Salaan?

31. Is there ever a Year “0” on a timeline?
NO !

32. If there is no B.C. or A.D given, what do you assume?
The year is A.D.- Goes BEFORE the Date

33. What is the LARGEST measure of time- decade year century millennium ?

34. Study for the Test!