Geography Quiz

The __________ includes all liquid and frozen surface water, ground water and water vapor.

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Biosphere

• Cryosphere

• Atmosphere

What does human geography examine?

• The relationships between climate, land, water, plants and animals.

• The relationships between physical environments and people

• The relationships between living and inanimate things on Earth

• The relationships between the people in the past, present and future.

Mental maps relate to

• Individuals’ subjective perception of the geographic world around them.

• Specific topics in geography such as landforms, vegetation, or population of a known area

• Maps inside technical devices like GPS, systems in cars that help us find places

• Layers of information such as soils, zoning, and population within composite maps.

A map that highlights differences in height between mountains and lower regions is called.

• A political map

• A mental map

• A physical map

• A thematic map

Which is the main purpose of global positioning technology?

• To determine relative locations on Earth

• To determine absolute locations on Earth

• To determine elevations on geographic features on Earth

• To determine the physical characteristics of regions

The 3 layers of the Earth are

• The lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere

• The plates, the crust, and the ocean basins

• The surface, the inner core, and the outer core

• The core, the mantle, and the crust.

Desalination has been developed to resolve the problem of

• scarcity of freshwater

• dwindling fish populations

• extreme climate change

• global economics

Scientists think Pangaea separated due to

• climate change

• weathering

• continental drift

• glaciers

How frequently does the Earth complete one rotation on its axis?

• Every 60 minutes

• Every 24 hours

• Every 7 days

• Every 365 days

When it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?

• summer

• autumn

• winter

• spring