Week One Vocabulary

Which topics are you most likely to learn about in a Geography class?

• How rocks are formed.

• How human activity can change the Earth.

• Where a country is located on a map.

• How to use a cellphone.

Pick the answer that correctly fills-in the blank:

The Rio Grande is a river that forms a ______ between Mexico and the United States of America.

• man-made border

• natural border

• political unit

• absolute location

Political units are borders that are created by:

• political authorities, like a government.

• cartographers.

• mental maps.

• Geographic Information Systems.

Dallas and Fort Worth are examples of:

• states.

• regions.

• countries.

• cities.

If you wanted to start a new job making maps, what would your job title be:

• Google Earth Assistant.

• Professional Earth Drawer.

• Border Guard.

• Cartographer.

The Empire State building is located at 40.7 degrees north (latitude), 74 degrees west (longitude). This is an example of:

• a global positioning system.

• man-made borders.

• absolute location.

• spatial reasoning.

A ______ is a nation with it's own government, that occupies it's own land, like_______.

• country, China.

• state, China.

• country, Palestine.

• state, Palestine.

A border wall is an example of:

• a man-made border.

• a natural border.

• a construction border.

• a political unit.

The way you think about the places around you makes up your:

• geographic information system.

• relative place.

• mental map.

• patterns.

One type of Geography is the ______ study of the world's surface.

• total

• patterns

• mental maps

• spatial