Abeka World Geography Review Test 1

Which ocean is the warmest?

What is the Earth’s largest freshwater lake?

Which continent is the largest in area and population?

In what order do you write coordinates?

What percentage of the Earth’s surface is water?

Which climate zones have a wide range of temperatures and experience seasons?

What is narrow strip of land which connects landmasses?

A map which accurately shows directions and shape but distorts distance and size

What is an artificial lake made by a dammed river called?

Which ocean is the largest and deepest?

which one is not a climate zone?

A triangular shaped landform where a river fans out before it reaches the ocean

What current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe has a warming effect on the climate of Westen Europe?

A way of moving the moisture from the ocean to the land and back to the oceans again

What helps the reader of the map determine distances?

Changes in the Earth's atmosphere in localized area during a short period of time

a narrow strip of land that connects two land masses

Which oceans surround North America?

What is a low place between mountains and hills?

What body of water is west of Australia?

what is a body of water surrounded by land called?

What have flat tops and extremely steep sides and are usually round or oblong in shape?

An economy which depends primarily upon agriculture

What are flat rolling lands with few changes in elevation called?

a wide mouth of a river where the ocean tide meets the river current

What direction do latitude lines go and what they measure?

What parallel of latitude encircles the earth halfway between the North and South Poles?

What direction longitude lines go and what they measure?