Unit 3 Lesson 2: Quiz Review!

Which pair of basic questions guides a geographers in their work?

• Where are things located? and Why are they there?
• What is the Climate? and Why has it changed?
• When did the Earth form and What is it made of?

To learn more about Earth, geographers organize information according to what themes?

• Regions, population and place.
• Latitude, Longitude and movement. 
• —Location, regions, place, movement, and human-environment interaction. 

Through the study of Earth, geographers learn how Earth and its people affect:

• human health
• the solar system
• each other

Latitude and longitude lines help geographers identify

• Absolute Location
• Relative Location

What do geographers learn by studying the theme of human-environment interaction?

• How regions differ from each other.
• —How people and the environment affect each other. 
• How people move from one place to another. 

The most accurate way to show Earth’s continents and bodies of water is with a...

• globe
• Mercator projection
• equal-area map

Why are there always distortions with a map?

• Maps are flat and the Earth is round.
• Small areas are hard to represent on a map.
• Maps are too small and don't hold enough information. 

Distortion on a map may change the shape of...

• the equator
• the prime meridian
• some landmasses

Where would you look to find out how distances on a map compare to the actual distances on land?

• the title
• the key
• the scale bar
• the compass rose

What do geographer’s study?

• landforms and their locations
• chemicals and chemical reactions
• the planets
• the moon