EXAM Practice for World Geography Quiz

Which statement below BEST defines absolute location?

• The cardinal directions that help you locate places on a map or globe

• The exact spot at which the place is found on the map or globe.

• The relative location at which the place is found on the map or globe.

• It is a place with a physical and or human component

What are the two BEST ways a person is able to find the absolute location of a place? CHOOSE TWO

• By using a grid system with coordinates

• By using a GPS or Global Positioning System

• By using a compass

• By using the Equator and Poles as a reference point

• By using the intermediate cardinal directions found on a map

What is the importance of the equator in helping to determine the relative location of a place?

• It breaks up the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• It breaks the Earth into colder and warmer climate zones

• It breaks the Earth into drier and wetter regions

• It breaks the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres

What is the importance of the prime meridian in helping to determine the relative location of a place?

• It breaks up the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• It breaks the Earth into colder and warmer climate zones

• It breaks the Earth into drier and wetter regions

• It breaks up the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres

What natural occurrence is primarily responsible for the development of both earthquakes and volcanoes?

• a dramatic shift in climatic temperatures

• movement of tectonic plates in the Earth’s crust

• an excessive amounts of rainfall

• catastrophic glacial and water erosion

When analyzing the water cycle, what must occur to create the process of evaporation?

• Precipitation cools as it falls to the Earth

• Warmer air and water currents

• Excess amounts of rainfall

• Increased temperatures created in the mantle

Which statement below BEST represents how the weather and climate differ from each other?

• Weather is considered a normal patterns of temperature and rainfall while climate is considered an extreme of both

• Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place while climate is a typically weather pattern as evidenced over a longer period of time

• Weather is considered the extreme patterns of temperature and rainfall while climate is considered the normal of both

• Climate is the condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place while weather is a typically weather pattern as evidenced over a longer period of time

What is the primary reason why the Earth experiences seasonal fluctuations in temperatures?

• the extreme rotation of the Earth

• the distance away from the North and South poles

• the nearness of the Equator to the sun

• the tilt of the Earth on its axis

The "Summer Solstice" marks the beginning of Summer and the __________ day of the year?

• shortest

• longest

• coldest

• warmest

What two seasons are begun on the equinoxes where there is an equal amount of both night and day?

• Spring and Fall

• Winter and Fall

• Summer and Winter

• Summer and Spring