Map Skills and Climate

The United States is the only country that recognizes the Southern Ocean.

What is it called when the Sun is at its furthest North?

Why does the Earth have seasons?

How do you find the absolute location of any place?

What is the most important part of a map?

When listing coordinates, which comes first, latitude or longitude?

Which of these is the newest Ocean?

Lines of latitude are called parallels.

Is the Tropic of Cancer's humidity dry or wet?

Which cities have the opposite seasons?

Meridians all meet at the North and South Poles.

What's the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere?

What is the largest continent?

What does the Earth do once a day?

How frequent are leap years?

Which continent is in the Southern Hemisphere?

How many main factors of climate are there?

In the Spring Equinox the Sun crosses the Equator from South to North.

What are the factors that influence climate?

What are the names of the two Tropics?

Which of these is NOT a continent?

How many oceans are there?

Which element of a map shows the 4 Cardinal Directions?

How many degrees is the Tropic of Capricorn?

The North Pole is located at 90 degrees South latitude.

Water covers nearly __________ of the Earth's surface.

What is on December 21st and June 21st?

There are 8 Cardinal Directions on a Compass Rose.

Geographers recognize 4 sets of hemispheres.

What takes the Earth 365.26 days to do?

What is the smallest continent?

Which of the following do you need to find the absolute location of a place?

How many degrees is the Earth tilted by?

Which of the following shows the relationship between distances on a map and in real life?

The Prime Meridian is 0 degrees Longitude.

Meridians divide the globe into vertical sections.