Abeka World Geography Review Test 1

What current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe has a warming effect on the climate of Westen Europe?

A map which accurately shows directions and shape but distorts distance and size

What is a low place between mountains and hills?

In what order do you write coordinates?

What percentage of the Earth’s surface is water?

Which continent is the largest in area and population?

What parallel of latitude encircles the earth halfway between the North and South Poles?

Changes in the Earth's atmosphere in localized area during a short period of time

which one is not a climate zone?

Which oceans surround North America?

what is a body of water surrounded by land called?

Which ocean is the largest and deepest?

An economy which depends primarily upon agriculture

What are flat rolling lands with few changes in elevation called?

What is narrow strip of land which connects landmasses?

What is the Earth’s largest freshwater lake?

A way of moving the moisture from the ocean to the land and back to the oceans again

Which ocean is the warmest?

a narrow strip of land that connects two land masses

What is an artificial lake made by a dammed river called?

What body of water is west of Australia?

A triangular shaped landform where a river fans out before it reaches the ocean

What helps the reader of the map determine distances?

a wide mouth of a river where the ocean tide meets the river current

What direction longitude lines go and what they measure?

What direction do latitude lines go and what they measure?

Which climate zones have a wide range of temperatures and experience seasons?

What have flat tops and extremely steep sides and are usually round or oblong in shape?