Geography Semester Review - Practice Quiz

What is the exact spot where something is located, usually its latitude and longitude?

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Cardinal Directions

• Climate

Which of the following are located on the compass rose?

• Climate

• Cardinal Directions

• Relative Location

• Absolute Location

What are weather patterns in an area usually experienced over a long period of time called?

• Cardinal Directions

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Climate

What is a navigational instrument that may include cardinal and intermediate directions?

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Compass Rose

• Climate

What is one of the seven principle landmasses of the earth called?

• Region

• Continent

• Hemispheres

• Scale

What is a change in the accuracy of shapes, direction, or distances shown on maps called?

• Distortion

• Environment

• Geography

• Hemispheres

What are our surroundings called?

• Environment

• Geography

• Hemispheres

• Distortion

What is the study of Earth and the people who live on it and how they use it called?

• Environment

• Geography

• Distortion

• Hemispheres

How many hemispheres does the Earth have?

• Three

• One

• Two

• Four

What is an imaginary latitude line located between the north & south poles at 0 degrees called?

• Hemispheres

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator