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6th grade Find places by latitude and longitude, and describe relative location worksheet

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Find places by latitude and longitude, and describe relative location

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

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Circle the best answer.

  1. Read this first

    Use the table

    CityLatitudeLongitude
    Anchorage, Alaska61° N150° W
    Wheeling, West Virginia40° N81° W

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

  2. 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. 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. 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

    CityLatitudeLongitude
    Montevideo, Uruguay35° S56° W
    Singapore1° N104° E
    Wellington, New Zealand41° S175° E
    Melbourne, Australia38° S145° E

    Data: Wikidata, rounded to whole degrees.

  6. 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. 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.

    CityLatitudeLongitude
    Lisbon, Portugal39° N9° W
    Istanbul, Türkiye41° N29° E. Data: Wikidata, rounded to whole degrees

  9. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
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About this worksheet

Latitude and longitude. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can tell latitude from longitude, and name the equator and the prime meridian.
  • I can read and write coordinates (latitude first) and find a place from its coordinates.
  • I can use coordinates to say which way one place is from another and how far apart two places are from north to south.

Standard: D2.Geo.2.6-8 (partial)

Words to know

latitude: How far north or south of the equator; its lines run flat, east to west

longitude: How far east or west of the prime meridian; its lines run pole to pole

equator: The 0° latitude line, halfway between the North and South Poles

prime meridian: The 0° longitude line, through Greenwich, England

hemisphere: Half of Earth: Northern or Southern, Eastern or Western

coordinates: A place's latitude and longitude, written latitude first: 34° S, 151° E

absolute location: Where a place is exactly, given by coordinates

relative location: Where a place is compared with another place: south and west of Denver

Common mistakes

Your child mixed up latitude and longitude. Try saying "lat is flat" together, trace a latitude line across a map, then trace a longitude line from pole to pole.

Your child mixed up north and south of the equator. Ask your child to point to the equator on a map and say which side each place is on before reading its numbers.

Your child mixed up east and west of the prime meridian. Find the prime meridian on a map together and ask which side each place is on before reading its numbers.

Questions parents ask

What is the most common mistake with find places by latitude and longitude, and describe relative location?

Your child mixed up latitude and longitude. Try saying "lat is flat" together, trace a latitude line across a map, then trace a longitude line from pole to pole.

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