Geography Skills

What does the relative location of a place tell you?

• The address of a place

• Where it is located on map

• Where a place is compared to another place

• The coordinates of a place

All of the following oceans touch Africa except?

• Arctic

• Southern

• Indian

• Atlantic

Which theme of geography describes an area with unique characteristics?

• Location

• Place

• Movement

• Region

Which two continents are located entirely in the eastern hemisphere?

• Africa and South America

• North America and South America

• Asia and Australia

• Europe and Antarctica

The equator is an imaginary line that runs?

• from the north pole to the south pole

• from east to west

• from the prime meridian to the international date line

• parallel to the arctic circle

What is the deeper part of a river or harbor called?

• delta

• isthmus

• channel

• bay

A group of closely scattered islands is called a?

• glacier

• valley

• archipelago

• strait

Which of the following would you not find near land?

• mountain

• valley

• plateau

• channel

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a peninsula?

• surrounded by water on three sides

• long, narrow portion of land

• extends out in the water

• completely surrounded by water

When a river empties deposits of silt and soil onto a triangular area of land, what formation do we call that?

• channel

• delta

• isthmus

• plateau