Find places by latitude and longitude, and describe relative location

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Use the table

   City	Latitude	Longitude
   Anchorage, Alaska	61° N	150° W
   Wheeling, West Virginia	40° N	81° W

   One degree of latitude is about 69 miles (USGS). Data: Wikidata, rounded to whole degrees.

2. 1.

   Pia compares two cities for a report. Counting only the north–south distance, about how far apart are Anchorage and Wheeling?

   • About 21 miles
   • About 6,970 miles
   • About 4,760 miles
   • About 1,450 miles
3. 2.

   Ren plans a pretend flight from Singapore to Auckland. Counting only the north–south distance, about how far apart are they?

   • About 2,620 miles
   • About 2,480 miles
   • About 4,900 miles
   • About 38 miles
4. 3.

   Tala finds two cities far apart on a globe. Counting only the north–south distance, about how far apart are Melbourne and Oslo?

   • About 1,520 miles
   • About 98 miles
   • About 6,760 miles
   • About 4,140 miles

5. Use the table

   City	Latitude	Longitude
   Montevideo, Uruguay	35° S	56° W
   Singapore	1° N	104° E
   Wellington, New Zealand	41° S	175° E
   Melbourne, Australia	38° S	145° E

   Data: Wikidata, rounded to whole degrees.

6. 4.

   Ari's mystery city is south of the equator, and it is the closest to the equator of those cities. Which city is it?

   • Singapore
   • Montevideo
   • Melbourne
   • Wellington
7. 5.

   Bo's mystery city is north of the equator, and it is the farthest east of the prime meridian of those cities. Which city is it?

   • Melbourne
   • Hanoi
   • Anchorage
   • Istanbul

8. Use the table

   World grid map (not to scale for distance), latitude and longitude lines every 10°, the equator and the prime meridian drawn bold and labeled 0°. Two dots, Lisbon and Istanbul, joined by a straight line.

   City	Latitude	Longitude
   Lisbon, Portugal	39° N	9° W
   Istanbul, Türkiye	41° N	29° E. Data: Wikidata, rounded to whole degrees

9. 6.

   Esme flies on a straight route from Lisbon to Istanbul. Which of the two 0° lines does the plane cross?

   • Neither the equator nor the prime meridian
   • The equator, but not the prime meridian
   • Both the equator and the prime meridian
   • The prime meridian, but not the equator
10. 7.

    Kira flies on a straight route from Montevideo to Oslo. Which of the two 0° lines does the plane cross?

    • Both the equator and the prime meridian
    • The prime meridian, but not the equator
    • Neither the equator nor the prime meridian
    • The equator, but not the prime meridian

11. Use this

    World grid map (not to scale for distance), latitude and longitude lines every 10°, the equator and the prime meridian drawn bold and labeled 0°.

12. 8.

    Luz wrote Wellington, New Zealand's location as 175° E, 41° S. Which fix makes it right?

    • Change S to N: 175° E, 41° N
    • Round to tens: 180° E, 40° S
    • Change E to W: 175° W, 41° S
    • Swap them: 41° S, 175° E
13. 9.

    Milo wrote Anchorage, Alaska's location as 61° S, 150° W. Which fix makes it right?

    • Swap them: 150° W, 61° S
    • Change W to E: 61° S, 150° E
    • Change S to N: 61° N, 150° W
    • Round to tens: 60° S, 150° W

14. Use this

    World grid map (not to scale for distance), latitude and longitude lines every 10°, the equator and the prime meridian drawn bold and labeled 0°.

15. 10.

    Noah wrote Hanoi, Vietnam's location as 21° N, 106° W. Which fix makes it right?

    • Round to tens: 20° N, 110° W
    • Change W to E: 21° N, 106° E
    • Swap them: 106° W, 21° N
    • Change N to S: 21° S, 106° W