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1
A change in the accuracy of shapes, sizes, and distances on a map is called:
distortion
warping
geography
map projection
2
What are the two questions that geographers ask?
1) How do people get from one place to another? 2) Where do people live?
1) Where are things located? 2) Why are they there?
1) What is the earth? 2) Where did it come from?
1) What is a city? 2) Who lives there?
3
Pick the true statement:
People affect the environment, but the environment doesn't affect people
People and the environment affect each other
People and the environment don't interact at all
The environment affects people, but people don't affect the environment
4
Globes are...
more convenient than maps, but less accurate
more accurate and more convenient than maps
more accurate than maps, but less convenient
less convenient and less accurate than maps
5
"Place" refers to the specific location of something on a map.
False
True
6
Which of the following events was on the This Week in History board this week?
The Mayflower departing from England for the New World
Labor Day
St. Augustine, Florida being founded
Hispanic Heritage Month
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Relative position refers to the location of something in relationship to the locations around it.
True
False
8
The equator is at what latitude?
45° S
90° N
0°
90° E
9
Geographers are interested in the movement of...
goods
all of the above
people
ideas
10
Which of the following is a human characteristic of a place?
What other landmarks are nearby
How hot or cold the climate there is
The population
Its latitude and longitude
11
Which of the five themes of geography refers to large areas with unifying factors like history, land, or population?
Region
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Location
12
This image depicts the Prime Meridian.
False
True
13
This image depicts lines of longitude
True
False
14
A compass rose shows...
the four cardinal directions, North, South, East, and West
The signature of the person who made the map
The different regions on a map
An illustration of a flower
15
"Place" refers to the human and physical characteristics that are found in a specific location.
True
False
16
Someone who studies the Earth from many points of view, and works on the creation and use of maps, is called a:
geologist
geographer
geometer
giraffe
17
A key or legend describes...
The distortion on a map
What the symbols and images used on a map represent
Where things are
The scale of a map
