QUIZ #1: LOCATION OF THE EARTH

Name the line that divides earth horizontally along the middle?

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

Name the line that divides earth vertically into two

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

What is a half of a sphere or half of earth called?

• Equator

• Sphere

• ball

• Hemisphere

Our world is divided into half of a globe or a sphere, this is called

• The hemisphere

• half a circle

• a ball

• a continent

The four directions on a Compass Rose are?

• Up, Down, Left, and Right

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• North, South, East, West

• +,+,-,-

When plotting for a place or city or country, I used the lines of Latitude and Longitude. I find the numbers that go with those lines. What is another name for those numbers?

 

• Coordinates

• Compass Rose

• Equators

• Hemispheres

The Symbol on a map that includes the cardinal directions of North, South, West and East is called a

• key

• A documentary

• Compass Rose

• Scale

What is a great circle?

• A circle of constant compass bearing

• Any line of latitude

• A circle whose center coincides with the center of the Earth

• The longest distance between two points on the Earth’s surface

What does latitude measure?

• The angular distance east and west of the prime meridian

• The distance in miles east and west of the prime meridian

• The angular distance east and west of the equator

• The angular distance north and south of equator

We measure latitude up to _____ degrees.

• 360

• 180

• 0

• 90