Unit 1 Geography Practice

What is the study of events that happened in the past?

• Geography

• History

• Commemorate

• Hemisphere

What do we call someone who studies the past?

• Historian

• Globe

• Continent

• Equator

What does it mean to commemorate something?

• To honor or remember

• To study the earth

• To describe events by someone who did not witness them

• To measure distance north or south of the equator

What is a globe?

• Descriptions of events by someone who did not witness them

• Eyewitness account of a historical event

• Small, round model of the earth

• One of the 7 main land masses on the Earth

What is the study of earth and how people use it?

• cardinal direction

• equator

• hemisphere

• geography

The 7 main land masses on earth are...

• continents

• oceans

• hemisphere

• geography

A pointer that shows direction on a map is called a ...

• ocean

• compass rose

• hemisphere

• intermediate direction

A body of saltwater that covers 71% of the earth is a(n)...

• ocean

• compass rose

• continent

• region

What are the 4 main directions on a compass rose called?

• hemispheres

• intermediate directions

• lines of latitude

• cardinal directions

What are the 4 middle directions (1/2 way between the main directions) on a compass rose called?

• hemispheres

• intermediate directions

• lines of latitude

• cardinal directions