Module 1 - A Geographer's World

Human geography studies many topics such as...

What is another name for lines of longitude?

Which map feature shows what the subject of a map is?

Which level of geography examines the types of food a community eats?

Physical geography studies many topics such as...

Which theme of geography focuses on how people use, change, and adapt to their surroundings?

Which type of map shows climate regions, natural resources, population density, or the distribution of religion?

Which of the following is not a reason Geography is a science?

Which level of geography compares different places with similar features?

What does longitude measure?

Which level of geography examines local government?

Which essential element examines how physical systems affect human systems?

Which type of map shows mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, deserts, and plains?

What does latitude measure?

Geography is the study of all the following except?

The half of the globe located above the Equator is called...

What geography tool is made up of many databases and combines and provides information from various sources?

Which map feature shows the distance between two points?

Which essential element explains how to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future?

Latitude and longitude are measured in...

Which level of geography examines how people in a town live?

Which projection is accurate along the lines of latitude where it touches the globe and retains true shape and size?

Which type of map shows borders and capital cities?

What is the science of map-making?

Which level of geography examines how people interact within a large city such as London?

What are the imaginary lines running east-west on a globe called?

Which theme of geography focuses on migration, transportation, shipping, and communication?

Which theme of geography focuses on where a particular place is found?

What geography tool provides information that gives the exact location of a given object on our planet?

Which level of geography examines how people communicate with others who are far away?

Which projection shows true direction for navigators, but distorts true shape?

What is the science of Earth's weather and its causes?

What is a flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth’s surface?

Which essential element analyzes the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface?

Which map feature shows what the symbols on a map represent?

What are the two major branches of geography?

What is the science of Earth's water?

Which theme of geography focuses on describing physical and human features?

Which essential element studies the physical and human characteristics of places?

What is another name for lines of latitude?

What is a spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet?

Which type of map projection shows accurate direction and shape, but distorts the size of continents near the poles?

Geography is considered a social science because geographers sometimes study landforms and bodies of water.

Which map feature shows the direction of north, south, east, and west?

Which level of geography studies products that a country exports to see how those products are used in other countries?

What are the imaginary lines running north-south on a globe called?

What provides images of the Earth from space?

Which theme of geography focuses on comparing places with shared physical and human features?

Which essential element studies the physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth’s surface?

Which essential element studies the patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface?