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