How Geographers View the World 1.1

The study of the Earth and its peoples, places and environments is called...

• geology

• geography

• cartography

• anatomy

location of one place compared to another place

• echolocation

• absolute location

• relative location

• relevant location

The exact position of a place on the Earth where one line of latitude crosses or intersects with one line of longitude is called...

• relative location

• latitude

• longitude

• absolute location

Also called parallels, circle the globe parallel to the Equator and measure the distance north or south of the Equator

• latitude

• longitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

What is the name of the imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• Prime Meridian

• latitude

• Equator

• longitude

Also called meridians, circle the globe and meet at the poles and measure the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian?

• latitude

• absolute location

• relative location

• longitude

What is the name of the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

• longitude

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• latitude

What do you call a group of places that are close to one another and share characteristics like landforms, climate, population, culture, or economy?

• country

• continent

• region

• geography

Which is an example of a physical region?

• United States

• Europe

• China

• Atacama Desert

Places that are close to one another and have some of the same traits are in the same

• landform

• zone

• component

• region