Unit 1 Study Guide

What are the two types of location?

• Absolute and Relative
• East and West

• Latitude and Longitude

• Equator and Prime Meridian

_________ is the study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments.

Latitude measures distance on Earth in a north to south direction. Lines go side to side. The Equator line is an example of this.

• True

• False

Longitude lines run up/down and measure earth east to west. An example of a longitude line is the Prime Meridian.

• True

• False

What is the location of the equator?

• 30 degrees N latitude

• 0 degrees longitude

• 0 degrees latitude

• 30 degrees S latitude

What does GPS stand for?

______ Positioning System

​ (a)   are a more ​ (b)   representation of Earth than ​ (c)   .

• Globes
• accurate
• maps

Match the following

• Weather

• An area of Earth that has generally warm temperatures because it receives direct rays from the sun for much of the year.

• Atmosphere

• Each half of earth

• Tropics

• The average weather in an area over a long period of time

• Hemisphere

• The conditions outside at any given time

• Climate

• Layer of gases that surround the earth

Label the different features of a map.

a

b

c

Map Title

Scale Bar

Key

Why does Earth have different seasons?

• The sun moves around the earth

• Earth's axis sits a tilt

• The earth moves around the sun

• The earth does not have different seasons