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What makes the earth have seasons?
Rotation
Tilt
The Sun
Spin
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What theme includes the distribution of goods around the world?
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Place
Location
3
A region that is organized around a set of connections between places is a___________________.
Formal Region
Functional Region
Important Region
Perceptual Region
4
Which theme of geography tells us what it is like there?
Region
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
5
A plateau is caused by?
gravity
volcanoes
soil deposites
techtonic movement
6
Geographers must do what to properly understand places?
be in a specific climate zone
focus broadly on culture, history, politics, and economic
create a series of maps
just take there best guess and hope for the best
7
Which of the following is not a factor of erosion?
Ice
Water
Sun
Wind
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Earthquakes can create what?
Hurricanes
Tornados
Tsunami
Drought
9
What climate region has no winter season?
Tropical
Temperate
Polar
10
Which of the following is not a factor that affects climate?
Wind, Topography
Latitude, elevation
Ocean Currents, Nearby bodies of water
longitude, time zones
11
Where would you find the coldest climate regions?
Temperate
Polar
Tropical
12
What best describes a summer monsoon?
They only bring dry winds
They are wet, warmer, and more humid than winter monsoons
They are colder then the winter monsoons
They have no change to the weather
13
The hot molten rock under the Earth surface is called?
Biome
Magma
Tectonic Plates
Continental Drift
14
Which is the best example of a site?
a specific physical setting in the world
a generic setting in the world
a generic climate zone
a specific climate zone
15
What does not influence climate regions?
longitude
latitude
nearness to water
elevation
16
Countries north of the Equator are in what Hemisphere?
Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
17
What kind of plate tectonic movement creates mountains?
moving
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
18
The two times a year that there is equal day light hours and dark hours in a day?
Eclipses
Seasons
Equinox
Solstice
19
What is a rain shadow?
When cloud cover is thick it gets dark during the day
When it rains at night
When it rains really hard
When one side of a mountain gets little rain
20
The imaginary line at 0° that runs east and west?
Prime Meridian
Latitude
Meridian
Equator
