Unit 1 CP World Geography Vocabulary

What is the disadvantage of a map compared to a globe?

• a map distorts properties like distance 
• a map shows little detail
• a map indicates actual distances
• a map is very large

Which is an example of a absolute location?

• South of London
• Northern Hemisphere
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
• 30 N Latitude, 150 W Longitude

How do geographers use a spatial perspective?

• to apply geographic skills to a variety of fields
• to study how people make meaning from the world
• to determine why things are located where they are
• to understand how living and non living things interact 

Zero degrees latitude is also called the _______.      

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

What is this object known as?

• map symbol
• map key
• map scale
• compass rose

Name the highlighted state.

• Missouri
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Ohio

The item on this map marked with a circle is called a...

• Key
• Scale
• Compass
• Legend

This item on a map is called a...

• Scale
• Thermometer
• Continent
• Compass Rose

This item on a map is called a...

• Continent
• River
• Legend
• Compass Rose

Imaginary line that runs around the earth halfway between the North and South Poles; used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude

• Longitude

• Basin

• equator

• Latitude