Map Skills Review

A map showing legal and political boundaries of cities, states, countries, etc.

• population

• physical

• grid

• political

A circle graph which shows direction.

• map scale

• compass rose

• cardinal directions

• map

An imaginary line in which longitude is defined to be 0°. It runs through Greenwich, England.

• prime meridian

• equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

• parallel

northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW)

• cardinal directions

• lines of longitude

• meridians

• intermediate directions

A map on which a network of horizontal and vertical lines are shown, for locating points.

• population map

• political map

• grid map

• physical map

An imaginary line around the middle of a planet, halfway between north and south.

• prime meridian

• equator

• lines of longitude

• parallels

A map that shows the physical features of a region including lakes, mountains, rivers, etc.

• general purpose map

• navigation chart

• grid map

• physical map

vertical lines that measure east or west of the prime meridian

• lines of longitude

• lines of latitude

• parallels

• grids

North, South, East West

• hemispheres

• poles

• cardinal directions

• intermediate directions

If you were walking from the high school to the middle school, which direction would you walk?

• north

• south

• east

• west