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What is climate?
The pattern of temperature and precipitation over many years
How rainy or hot it is going to be
The pattern of temperature and precipitation over a week
The weather over a week
2
What does an economic activity map show?
Where its people live
How high its mountains are
What kind of climate it has
How its people make a living
3
What is vegetation?
An area defined by one or more cultural characteristics
All the plants and trees in an area
Any natural feature of Earth's surface.
A pattern of weather over a long period
4
On what type of map would you find coal, uranium, and petroleum?
Population Density
Climate
Land Use
Vegetation
5
A map that shows religion or language is what type of map?
Regional
Political
Physical
Cultural
6
On a map that shows physical features, what would you find?
Capitals and Countries
Landforms
Population
Businesses
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What is population density?
The average number of people in a square unit of area.
The location of where people live in the world.
How many miles apart people live.
How large a country or city is.
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What is economic activity?
Any action that relates to the buying and selling of goods.
A may that shows whether the economy is doing well or not.
An activity or pass time of a country.
Making money within a country.
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Which of the following is not a factor that affects climate?
Clouds
Latitude
Wind
Elevation
10
A map that shows vegetation is what type of map?
Political
Cultural
Physical
11
Trees with broad flat leaves that are shed before winter are:
Chaparral
Mixed Forest
Coniferous Forest
Deciduous Forest
12
What is a landform?
Any man-made feature on Earth
Any natural characteristic of Earth's surface
Any water feature like rivers or lakes
Any natural feature that has distinct shape, like a mountain
13
Andy lives in Arizona, it is very dry and hot, with desert scrub, on the border of an arid zone
Tundra
Humid Subtropical
Tropical Wet and Dry
Semiarid
14
A map that shows countries and capitals is what type of map?
Physical
Cultural
Political
15
Kaleigh went to Mt. Kilimanjaro where the climate and vegetation changed as she went up the mtn
Highlands
Subarctic
Tropical Wet
Tundra
16
What do geographers call an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas?
City
Region
Landform
Climate Zone
17
Which of the following is a pattern of weather over a long period of time?
Temperature
Climate
Weather
Precipitation
