Geography Quiz (Thinking Like a Geographer/Geographer's Tools)

Match the Five Themes of Geography

• What is the site/position of your house relative to the nearest city?

• Place

• What common physical, natural, or human characteristics define this area of the world?

• Movement

• What are the physical and human features of your school/community?

• Human-Environment

  Interaction

• How do people's behaviors affect the land? How does the land affect people's behaviors?

• Region

• How do people, goods, and ideas spread across the globe?

• Location

Match the following

• An imaginary line that divides the Earth into eastern and western halves.

• Prime Meridian

• The measure of distance north and south from the equator.

• Latitude

• An imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern halves.

• Equator

• The measure of distance east and west of from the prime meridian.

• Longitude

Match the following

• Physical Map

• A map that shows features such as countries, counties, states, and cities.

• Political Map

• A map that provides information about a place, such as how people make a living, or how people voted in an election.

• Special-Purpose Map

• A map that highlights features of a place, such as mountains, plains, rivers, and lakes.

The location of a place, compared to another place.

The terms geographers use to describe the exact location of the place.

Match the following

• Relief

• A method of transferring the Earth's curved surfaces onto a flat map.

• Projection

• A change in elevation.

• Scale

• The size of a globe compared to the Earth itself.

• Globe

• A sphere with a map of the Earth printed on it.