Geography: Terms and Skills

What is UTC?

• Universal Coordinated Time

• Coordinated Universal Time

• Time Universally Coordinated

What is Geography?

• The study of the Earth's physical characteristics and surface, including their

  effects on human and the effects of humans over the Earth.

• The study of the Earth's physical characteristics and surface, including their

  effects on martian life and the effects of martians over the Earth.

• The study of the Earth's physical characteristics and surface, including their

  effects on human and the effects of humans through space and time.

Geography helps us understand....

• The Past societies and environments

• Provides context for the present.

• Helps us plan for the future.

• Understand how everything works and why we live the way new do.

Globes and Maps are both used to represent the Earth. Both have similar functions; but are different in many ways.

• True

• False

It shows the true shape of Earth

• Globe

• Sphere

• Map

Political and Physical Maps are the two types of

• Globes

• Spheres

• Maps

The globes are divided into the

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• All of the above

Divides North and South and runs East to West

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

Divides East and west and runs from North to South

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

What represents the Latitude?

• Parallels

• Meridians