Unit 1: Essentials of Geography (1st half)

What do geographers use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine?

• Absolute location
• Relative Location 
• Region 
• Cities

What divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere?

• The Arctic Circle
• Antarctics
• The Equator
• The Prime Meridian

Which phrase describes an absolute location?

• I live by the high school. 
• 55° North, 12° East
• 10° South of the Equator
• The Northern Hemisphere

What is one way that latitude lines and longitude lines are different?

• Nothing. They are the same. 
• Latitude lines start at the North Pole; longitude lines start at the South Pole.
• Latitude lines never touch each other; longitude lines meet.
• One starts at the North Pole and one starts at the South Pole. 

What divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? 

• The Prime Meridian 
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• The Equator

What do Geographers study? 

• What people produce, sell, and buy. 
• The location of places and the people that live there. 
• How much produce a country produces. 
• Where dinosaurs once lived.

The President, Congress, and Mayors are examples of which ESPN catergory?

• Political 
• Social 
• Economic
• eNvironment

The way societies organize the production and distribution of goods and services is known as:

• Political Systems
• Education 
• Social 
• Economic Systems

The physical geography of a place and how people adapt to and modify their surroundings  is known as:

• the eNvironment
• Economic Systems
• Political Systems
• Social Systems

Which direction would someone have to drive to get to California from Dallas? 

• North 
• South 
• East 
• West