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What is a compass rose?
a map feature that shows direction
a type of flower
a map feature that shows distance
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What is the Equator?
an imaginary line that divides Earth into East and West
an imaginary line of longitude at 0 degrees
an imaginary line of latitude at 0 degrees
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What is geography?
The study of Earth and everything on it.
The study of locations on Earth
The study of land and oceans
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What is a mountain range?
a row or chain of mountains
a long plateau
an archery range on a hill
5
What is a peninsula?
a piece of land surrounded by water
a body of water surrounded on 3 sides by land
a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
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What are lines of latitude?
Imaginary lines that show directions
Imaginary lines that run east and west
Imaginary lines that run north and south
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What is a physical map?
a map designed to show boundaries, cities, countries, states
a map that shows only land on Earth
a map designed to show natural landforms of Earth
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What is a political map?
a map designed to show manmade features
a map designed to show political groups of a country
a map designed to show landforms
9
What is climate?
weather patterns of an area over a long period of time
the condition of the atmosphere day to day
the amount of snow that falls at the poles
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What are the intermediate directions?
NE, NW, SE, SW
N, S, E, W
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What are the four basic parts of a map?
compass rose, title, key, land
compass rose, scale, continents, oceans
compass rose, scale, title, key/legend
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What is a 3 Dimensional model of Earth?
a pool noodle
a globe
a map
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What are the high latitudes?
high degrees of latitude/the poles
land along the Equator
high degrees of longitude/the oceans
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What is an archipelago?
a group of deltas
a group of islands
a group of penguins
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What are the four main oceans?
Pacific, Arctic, Southern, Indian
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic
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What is a map scale?
a map feature that shows the weight of the map
a map feature that shows distance
a map feature that shows direction
17
What is an island?
an imaginary line of latitude
a narrow strip of land surrounded by water on two sides
a piece of land surrounded by water
18
What is a hemisphere?
All of Earth
1/4 of Earth
1/2 of Earth
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Which of these features is man made?
volcano
canal
bay
20
What is a cape?
a small point of land that extends into a body of water
a small piece of water that runs onto land
a small piece of land
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What is a bay?
a body of water surrounded by water
a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
a body of water surrounded on 3 sides by land
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What are the cardinal directions?
NE, NW, SE, SW
N, S, E, W
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What is a delta?
land formed at the mouth of a river
land formed from a volcano
an airplane maker
24
What do you call the place where a river begins?
the source
a delta
the mouth
25
What is a desert?
an ice cream sundae
a dry region of land
an area that receives lots of rain or snow
26
What are the Low Latitudes?
the poles
low degrees of longitude along the Prime Meridian
low degrees of latitude along the Equator
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What is the Prime Meridian?
The imaginary line of latitude at 0 degrees
The imaginary line of longitude at 0 degrees
The imaginary line that divides Earth into North and South
28
What are the meridians?
lines on notebook paper
lines of longitude
lines of latitude
29
What is a cartographer?
a balloon maker
a map maker
a car maker
30
What are lines of longitude?
imaginary lines that run east and west
imaginary lines that run around the whole Earth
imaginary lines that run north and south
31
What is an isthmus?
a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger pieces of land
a piece of land surrounded by water
a narrow strip of water that connects 2 oceans
32
What are the 7 continents?
Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia, America, Mexico
Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia, No & So America
Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia, Mexico, Canada
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What are two types of location?
here and there
north and south
absolute and relative
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What are the parallels?
lines of longitude
lines of latitude
35
What is weather?
weather patterns of an area over a long period of time
the condition of the atmosphere on a day to day basis
the amount of rain that falls along the Equator
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What is a continent?
one of seven large land masses on Earth
a piece of land that is surrounded by water on two sides
one of many islands on Earth
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What is a strait?
a narrow passage of water that connects 2 pieces of land
a narrow passage of water that connects 2 bodies of water
a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger pieces of land
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What is a glacier?
a large moving body of water
a large moving body of ice
a large moving piece of land
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What do you call the place where a river ends?
the source
a volcano
the mouth
