Geography

What type of map would show you the population in different regions of the world?

• Political
• Physical
• Thematic
• Dora the Explorer Map

How many continents are on planet earth?

• 2
• 10
• 4
• 7

Which of these is NOT an ocean?

• Mediterranean
• Atlantic
• Indian
• Pacific

Why do we study Geography?

• To understand the systems that affect everyday life.
• To understand WHEN something happened.
• To understand algebraic equations.
• To pass a test.

A GLOBE is a 2-dimensional representation of the Earth.

• True
• False

A map will always be distorted in some way because...

• Cartographers are not very skilled artists.
• Geographers like to confuse us.
• The continents are constantly changing size and shape.
• When a sphere is flattened it changes size and shape.

What are the lines drawn horizontally across the globe?

• latitude
• longitude

What is the longest river in the world?

• Mississippi
• Yellow 
• Yangtze
• Nile

The measurement of the Equator is...

• 90 degrees North
• 90 degrees South
• 0 degrees 
• 98 degrees

Which of these is NOT a continent?

• North America
• Russia
• Australia
• Antarctica