basic geography

What is geography?

• study of earth and its people, places, and environments

• study of the sun

• study of just land

• study of water

What are land forms?

• natural features found on land

• has nothing to do with land

• what somone has formed up

example of a land form

• river

• mountains

• oceans

• peninsulas

Landscapes can be

• viewed at one time at one location

• only viewed from the sky

• are not applicable to this study

• portions of the atmosphere

To locate places on the Earth, we use,

• Grid view - both latitudes and longitudes

• Only latitudes

• Only longitudes

• None of the above

The imaginary horizontal lines running parallel on the Earth is called

• Grid

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Heat zone

Select correct statements.

• Latitudes are imaginary lines

• Latitudes are vertical lines

• Latitudes are point sized at the poles

• Latitudes are measured in degrees.

What is the name of this line at 0 degrees latitude?

• Prime Meridian
• Equator
• North Pole
• South Pole

What is the name of the line at zero degrees longitude?

• Equator
• Prime Meridian
• North Pole
• South Pole

What divides a globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• Equator

• a line of longitude

• Prime Meridian

• International Date Line