A printable latitude and longitude worksheet: students read the coordinates of ten lettered points on a world grid, name each point’s hemispheres, plot four more points, and answer three questions. Answer key included.
What’s included
- A world map on a 15-degree grid, every line numbered
- Ten lettered points to read and four points to plot
- A table for each point’s latitude, longitude and hemispheres
- Three questions, and an answer key on pages 3 and 4
- Color and black & white versions
About this map
The world is drawn on a plain latitude and longitude grid, so every line of latitude is straight and level, and every point sits exactly where two lines cross. No point is on the equator or the prime meridian, so each one has a clear pair of hemispheres.
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Classroom use ideas
- Teach reading latitude first, then longitude, with the first two points
- Have partners quiz each other with new points on the same grid
- Use it after the world map with latitude and longitude
- Follow up by plotting a real hurricane’s path