The Tools of Geography

The precise point on Earth where a particular place can be found is called its ______.

• Absolute location

• Relative location

• distortion

• map projection

You invite Mrs. Binns to play tennis at a park. You tell her the park is two blocks north of the school. You have just described the park’s ___.

• absolute location

• distortion

• relative location

• map projection

What do geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth?

• a compass rose

• map scale

• map legend

• a global grid

All flat maps have ________, which is a change in shape, location, and size of places on Earth.

• distortion

• tilt

• rotation

• continents

A meridian of longitude is an imaginary line that runs ____.

• parallel to the Arctic Circle

• parallel to the Tropic of Cancer

• from the North Pole to the South Pole

• from the Prime Meridian to the International Date Line

What causes the changing of seasons throughout the year?

• the rotation of Earth around its axis

• the tilt of Earth's axis toward the sun

• the distance between the sun and Earth

• the division of Earth into hemispheres

North America and South America are both found in which hemisphere?

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

What does a map’s scale compare?

• direction on a map with direction on Earth

• distance on a map with distance on Earth

• location on a map with location on a globe

• distortion on a map with distortion on a globe

0° latitude

• Artic Circle

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

0° Longitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Cancer