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