Review for semester exam

the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.

• Physical Geography

• Geography

• Cartographer

• Human Geography

the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation.

• Physical Geography

• Human Geography

• Geography

• Earths Natural Features

Define Prime Meridian

• a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface. The half of such a circle included between the poles

• the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.

• the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.

• the half of the earth between the South Pole and the equator.

Is legend is another word for map key?

• True

• False

• Neither

What is another name for map key?

• Legend

• Compass rose

• Scale Bar

• Map

Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

The prime meridian is located at what degree?

• 0 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees longitude

• 0 degrees latitude

• 90 degrees latitidue

Theme is what?

• A type of map

• Something a story has

• Something you have learned about in English

• A topic

The part of a map that indicates how big an area of Earth is shown.

• Scale

• Legend

• Map Key

• Elevation

an imaginary circle around the Earth that is the same distance from the North to South Poles and divides Earth in half; the center or 0° line of latitude.

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian