Map Skills

An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth that divides the globe into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Longitude

Same features that belong to a place or region

• Region

• Common Characteristics

• latitude

• hemisphere

Grid lines on a globe going North and South

• longitude

• prime meridian

• latitude

• equator

Half of the globe created by the Prime Meridian or the Equator

• latitude

• longitude

• region

• hemisphere

An imaginary line that divides the globe into the Eastern and Western hemispheres

• equator

• prime meridian

• latitude

• longitude

Grid lines on a globe going East and West

• latitude

• longitude

• prime meridian

• equator

Places that have common characteristics?

• hemisphere

• equator

• regions

• prime meridian

What is the degree of the Prime Meridian and the Equator?

• 90

• 100

• 30

• 0

Which imaginary line is at 0 degrees latitude?

• latitude

• longitude

• equator

• prime meridian

Latitude and Longitude lines are measured in units called

• points

• latitude lines

• longitude lines

• degrees