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What is the name of the shaded continent?
A. Africa
D. Europe
B. North America
C. Australia
2
What is the definition of climate?
average weather conditions in an area over time
What you do to a tree
average soil conditions in an area
average altitude in an area
3
What ocean is #3?
Pacific
Artic
Atlantic
Southern
4
NE, SW, NW, SE directions are known as _____?
Travel Directions
Coordinates
Cardinal Directions
Intermediate Directions
5
What continent is the arrow pointing to?
North America
South America
Australia
Europe
6
The Tropic of Capricorn is ______ of the Equator?
West
North
South
East
7
What is the name of the shaded continent?
C. North America
D. Asia
A. Europe
B. South America
8
The lines that run east and west are called the ______________________________.
parallel
lines of latitude
lines of longitude
absolute location
9
What is the name of the shaded continent?
D. Australia
C. Asia
B. Europe
A. Antarctica
10
The most southern point is the _______
North Pole
South Pole
Equator
Prime Meridian
11
What is Human Geography?
To write or draw the Earth.
Studying Earths physical feature and process.
Studying Humans interaction with the Earth and each other.
Angular distance from the Earth.
12
What is absolute location?
The location of a place in relation to someplace else
The exact place where something is located (coordinates)
Horizontal lines on a map
none
13
What is the definition of weather?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place Ex: cold & rain
an area of land
A place that is hot
An area of earth in one place
14
Name the continent numbered 7.
Asia
Europe
Australia
South America
15
What is the name of the image below?
Directions
Compass Rose
Whereometer
16
The line of longitude labeled 0 degree longitude.
Prime Meridian
latitude
longitude
17
What is the largest ocean?
Atlantic
Southern
Pacific
Arctic
18
Where is the Arctic Circle on this globe?
At the bottom
At the top
Round the middle
19
What is geography?
The agriculture of Earth
The study of Earth and its changes over time
Where places are located on the map
The features of that place on a map
20
These lines run north to south, but measure east to west
scale
longitude
projections
latitude
21
What does a map legend do?
Explain the distance on a map.
Explain the symbols on a map.
Explain the title of a map.
Explain the value of a map.
22
What is the name of the shaded continent?
B. Asia
C. Antarctica
A. South America
D. Europe
23
What is the name of the shaded continent?
A. South America
D. Europe
B. Asia
C. Africa
24
The Antarctic Circle is farther north than the Arctic Circle
True
False
25
What are the names of the 7 continents?
Australia, North America, Europe, England, Africa, Antartica and China
North America, South America, Africa, Antartica, Australia, Asia and Europe
North America, South America, Asia, New Zeland, Bali, Antartica and Japan
Australia, America, France, Europe, Asia, Denmark and Vietnam
26
What ocean is #4?
Atlantic
Arctic
Southern
Pacific
27
7. What is the largest continent in the world?
North America
Africa
Asia
Antarctica
28
What ocean is #1?
Artic
Pacific
Southern
Atlantic
29
Where is the Arctic Circle?
Very West
Very South
Very East
Very North
30
Lines of ____________ run vertically but measure East and West are...
Latitude
Longitude
Parallels
Ups and Downsies
31
Map Orientation is the perspective of the map from a particular direction.
False
True
32
What is Relative Location ?
Where a place is located in relation to another place.
The spinning motion of the earth.
A place in which important ideas begin and spreed
A place in which important ideas begin
33
The Tropic of Cancer is...
a latitude line that locates the northern tropics
a longitude line that locates the northern tropics
a latitude line that locates the southern tropics
a longitude line that locates the southern tropics
34
Lines that run north and south, but measure east and west.
vertical line
Equator
longitude lines
lattitude lines
35
What are the names of the 5 oceans?
Southern and Indian
Southern, Indian, Pacific and Atlantic
Southern, Indian, Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic
Southern, Indian and Atlantic
36
What is Physical Geography?
Studying human interaction with the Earth and each other
Orientation, Date, Author, Legend, Scale, Source
Studying Earths Physical Features
Geography
37
What is the name of the imaginary latitude line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Longitude
Hemisphere
Equator
Prime Meridian
38
What is the only continent that is also a country?
Europe
Australia
North America
Africa
39
What is the name of the shaded continent?
A. Asia
B. North America
D. South America
C. Europe
40
Tropic of Capricorn
a latitude line that locates the northern tropics
a latitude line that locates the southern tropics
a longitude line that locates the southern tropics
a longitude line that locates the northern tropics
41
What continent is the United States of America on?
South America
Europe
North America
42
What is the Temperate Zone?
Side of a mountain range that faces away from oncoming wind
Climate of coastal regions with warm winters and cool summer
The areas between the tropical and the polar zones.
The side of a mountain range that faces the oncoming wind.
43
What ocean is #2?
Artic
Pacific
Southern
Atlantic
44
What continent is the arrow pointing to?
Antarctica
Africa
Asia
Australia
45
The four cardinal directions are....
North, East, South, West
Eastern Northern Western
Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast
46
What is a globe?
a model of the Earth
all the above
a large body of land
a diagram that shows directions
47
The Prime Meridian splits the earth into these hemispheres...
North
North and South
South
East and West
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What do the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn mark?
Where to draw a scale on a map
lines of longitude
where the tropic zone meets the temperate
where the polar zones meet the temperate zone
