Social Studies Chapter 1 7/8

______ describes where a geographic feature is located by referring to other features around it.

• Relative location

• Absolute location

• The Global Positioning System

• A Geographic Positioning System

According to historians, the period known as modern history began about five ________.

• years ago

• decades ago

• centuries ago

• millennia ago

The path each planet travels around the sun is called its

• axis

• orbit

• revolution

• solar system

In the Northern Hemisphere, the day of the year with the fewest hours of sunlight is the _____.

• fall equinox

• spring equinox

• winter solstice

• spring solstice

What geographic theme involves characteristics that make location unique?

• place

• regions

• location

• movement

_____ provide(s) detailed photographs for creating maps.

• A globe

• a satellite

• A Global Positioning System

• Geographic Information Systems

The earth circles the sun every_____.

• 24 hours

• 365 1/4 days

• 88 years

• 165 years

Temperatures are always cool or cold by the north and south poles because

• the poles face the sun in daytime

• the rays of the sun hit the poles directly

• the poles turn away from the sun at night

• the poles receive only slanted rays from the sun

What is the name of the imaginary line that "splits" the globe on the right in half?

• the equator

• the prime meridian

• the hemisphere line

• the Tropic of Capricorn

The sun's rays directly hit places in the _______.

• midlatitudes

• high latitudes

• Tropics

• spring equinox