Unit 1 Review Geography

Which term means the study of the spatial characteristics of the world's land and people?

• Geography

• Institutions

• Culture

• Region

Which term means the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular group?

• Geography

• Institutions

• Culture

• Region

Name the country found North of the United States:

• Canada

• Mexico

The names of the hemispheres are

• northern, southern

• northern, southern, eastern, western

• eastern, western

• northeastern, southern, western, northsouthern

What lineS run north and south but measure distances east and west

• Lines of latitude

• Equator

• Lines of longitude

• Prime Meridian

When you describe a location using the location's latitude and longitude, you are referring to its

• relative location

• exact location

• coordinate location

• immediate location

Invisible line at 0^o latitude; divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• International Date Line

Invisible line at 0^o longitude; it divides the Earth into the Western and Eastern hemispheres

• Equator

• Coordinate

• International Date Line

• Prime Meridian

Explains where a place is by compairing it to another place.

• relative location

• absolute location

• latitude

• longitude

Global Positioning System (GPS)

• a database of geographic information used to create maps

• it is a physical feature on the earths surface

• it is a boundary that divides to continents

• system that uses satellite data to pinpoint exact locations