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Latitude and Longitude
Grade 4 - Social Studies - Building Confidence
Worksheet 1
1Which coordinate pair correctly lists the location of Lake Point?
2What does the latitude 47 degrees N tell about Forest City?
3What does the longitude 96 degrees W tell about Prairie City?
4Which location has the same latitude as River City?
5Why do geographers use both latitude and longitude for Prairie City?
6Which coordinate pair correctly lists the location of River City?
7What does the latitude 41 degrees N tell about Prairie City?
8What does the longitude 83 degrees W tell about Lake Point?
9Which location has the same latitude as Harbor Town?
10Why do geographers use both latitude and longitude for Lake Point?
About this worksheet
Latitude and longitude form a grid that helps students describe exact locations on Earth asks fourth graders to use civic, geographic, historical, or economic evidence instead of choosing a familiar-sounding word. Students may reverse the two numbers, or they may remember north and south but forget that longitude measures east and west from the Prime Meridian. This worksheet keeps each question tied to a concrete classroom, community, map, source, or market situation so students must decide what the evidence shows. Students identify latitude and longitude lines, read coordinate pairs in the correct order, connect hemispheres to N and S, and explain how coordinates locate places. Support versions use close-to-home examples and direct wording. Standard and challenge versions add similar choices that require closer reading of the role, location, source, or tradeoff. Ask your child to underline the clue in the prompt before choosing. If an option is true in general but does not match the exact situation, it is probably a distractor. That habit builds the evidence reading needed for later history and civics work.
What your child will learn
Tell latitude from longitude
Read coordinate pairs
Use hemispheres
Describe exact location
Worked example
A place at 35 degrees N, 90 degrees W is north of the Equator and west of the Prime Meridian.
Common mistake
Writing longitude first when a coordinate pair asks for latitude, then longitude.
Helpful hint
Latitude comes first and tells north or south; longitude comes second and tells east or west.
Worksheet 1