Geography Maps

What is Geography?

• The study of mapmaking.

• The study of the world's physical features.

• The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.

• The study of people and their communities.

Which level of geographic study is best applicable to the following statement. "Wildfires have caused many people in the Pacific Northwestern portion of the U.S. to evacuate."

• Local

• Regional

• Global

Which level of geographic study is best applicable to the following statement. "The virus known has COVID-19 has made an impact on communities around the world."

• Local

• Regional

• Global

From the descriptions below, which of the 5 Themes of Geography matches best with the theme of: Human Environmental Interaction?

• An area that has shared characteristics.

• How people, goods, and ideas get from point A to point B.

• How people adapt to their environment and how people control their environment.

• What a location is like, how it is described.

• Where something is in terms of absolute or relative location.

From the descriptions below, which of the 5 Themes of Geography matches best with the theme of: Movement?

• An area that has shared characteristics.

• How people, goods, and ideas get from point A to point B.

• How people adapt to their environment and how people control their environment.

• What a location is like, how it is described.

• Where something is in terms of absolute or relative location.

Physical Geography is the study of......

• animals and the landscapes they create.

• people and the landscapes they create.

• the world's physical features.

• atmospheric conditions in specific locations (weather).

What is the name of the line shown here that divides the Earth into a Northern & Southern Hemisphere?

• Prime meridian

• International date line

• arctic circle

• equator

Also known as Meridians, these lines meet at the North and South Poles and circle the entire globe.

• equator

• prime meridian

• longitude lines

• tropic of cancer

As latitude lines move further north of the equator, what happens to the temperature?

• It gets hotter

• It gets colder

• No change at all

The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into what two hemispheres? (PICK TWO)

• northern hemisphere

• eastern hemisphere

• southern hemisphere

• western hemisphere