Name: ________________________________

Geography Assessment

latitude
Legend (Key)

Word Bank
longitude
title

Date: ______________

scale
compass rose

Choose a word from the word bank to complete each sentence. You will use each word
once.
1. The _________________ tells us what the map is about.
2. The _________________ explains what the symbols on the map stand for.
3. The _________________ helps us know what direction we need to go on a map.
4. You can use the ___________________ to find the distance between 2 places on
Earth.
5. Lines of __________________ go north and south.
6. Lines of __________________ go east and west.
Answer the questions below using the map.

7. Phoenix and Denver are between which two lines of latitude? ___________ and __________
8. Fargo and Lincoln are between which two lines of longitude? ____________ and __________

9. The imaginary line that divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres is called
the.....

a. Prime Meridian
b. Axis

c. Equator
d. Legend

10. The imaginary line that divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres is called the...
a. Prime Meridian
c. Equator
b. Symbols
d. Legend

Label the shaded Hemispheres as southern, northern, eastern, or western.

Hemisphere: ______________________

Hemisphere:_______________________
__

Hemisphere:_____________________
__

Hemisphere:_____________________
__

Label the Compass Rose with the abbreviations: N, S, E, W, NE, SE, NW, SW