Latitude and Longitude Quiz

What is latitude?

• Distance between two locations on Earth.

• Angular distance of a location on Earth from the North Pole.

• Measurement of the Earth's circumference at a specific location.

• Angular distance of a location on Earth from the equator

What is longitude?

• A geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.

• A geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

• A unit of measurement used to calculate distance between two points on the Earth's surface.

• A geographic coordinate that specifies the altitude of a point on the Earth's surface.

Which line of latitude is considered as 0 degrees?

• Equator

• Arctic Circle

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian

Which line of longitude is considered as 0 degrees?

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

What is the maximum latitude value?

• 90 degrees

• 180 degrees

• 45 degrees

• 0 degrees

What is the maximum longitude value?

• 360

• 180

• 270

• 90

What is the latitude of the North Pole?

• 90 degrees

• 180 degrees

• 0 degrees

• 45 degrees

What is the longitude of the International Date Line?

• 270 degrees

• 0 degrees

• 90 degrees

• 180 degrees

What is the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?

• 23.5 degrees north

• 45 degrees north

• 10 degrees south

• 0 degrees

What is the longitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?

• 60 degrees

• 45 degrees

• 0 degrees

• 23.4372 degrees