Geography Pre-Quiz

What does physical geography study?

• The Earth's landforms, bodies of water, climate and living things

• The height of the land

• Just the things that live on the land

• Just the Earth's land-forms

What does human geography study?

• All the statistics about humans on the Earth

• Where, how and with whom humans live

• Where humans live

• Culture

GDP is a measurement of all the goods and services produced by a countries economy. It stands for:

• Goods Departments and Products

• Gross Domestic Product

• Gold Demand Production

What are the 5 themes of geography?

• Location, place, interaction, movement & region

• Location, place, landforms, culture & interaction

• Location, place, land-forms, climate & region

• Location, land-forms, climate, culture & interaction

Customs are...

• things people do again and again

• not linked to physical geography

• often linked to culture

• all easy to see when you visit another country

• mostly just the things people do every day

Climate is different than weather because

• Climate is the patterns of weather over a long period of time

• Weather only applies to one area

• Climate only deals with heat while weather deals with rain

• Climate is about a problem with the environment

Which is not a factor affecting climate?

• The amount of people living in a location

• The latitude of a location

• the elevation of a location

• The ocean currents near a location

Which do you need to measure distance on a map?

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What is industrialization?

• A time period that changes a country from farming to factories.

• A type of music specific to a persons culture.

• The effect of several countries going to war.

• Studying the impact climate change will have on ocean levels and polar ice caps.

Urbanization involves...

• making the world a global village

• cities getting bigger

• making every village and town look like a city

• people moving from the countryside to the city

• people moving from the city to the countryside and taking ideas from the city with them