Chapter 1 Pre Quiz

Which phrase best summarizes what geographers study?

• history of cities around the world

• reasons that people and nations engage in trade

• science of how GPS works

• location of places and the people who live there

What are geographic patterns?

• questions that geographers ask

• similarities among different places

• categories of information about Earth

• key ideas about physical processes

What theme of geography explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?

• location

• movement

• place

• region

What is absolute location?

• exact point where a place is found

• position of one place compared to another

• region that contains a place

• characteristics that make a place unique

When geographers study the economic life of people from a certain place, what essential element are they studying?

• human systems

• physical systems

• places and regions

• spatial thinking

What region is also an entire continent?

• Russia and the Eurasian Republics

• South America

• South Asia

• Sub Saharan Africa

A locator globe shows

• specific area of the world displayed on a map

• distance represented on a map

• direction a person would travel to reach a location

• elevation of a location in the world

The equator is

• the line that runs from the North Pole through Greenwich to the South Pole

• the center line of latitude on Earth

• the line that divides the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere

• the center line of longitude on Earth

Projections help cartographers

• decide what colors to use for land

• show Earth's curved surface on a flat map

• eliminate all distortions from maps

• figure out the distances between regions

A map element that represents information on a map such as the location of natural resources is called a

• legend

• scale

• symbol

• title