Geography Vocabulary Quiz

What are the cardinal directions?

• North, South, East, and West

• Up, Down, Left, and Right

• Forward, Backward, Sideways, and Diagonal

• Above, Below, Inside, and Outside

What does a compass rose on a map show?

• The distance between cities

• The directions

• The population of a country

• The weather patterns

What is a continent?

• A small island

• A large area of land with many countries

• A type of ocean

• A mountain range

What is the equator?

• A river that flows through Europe

• An imaginary line that circles the middle of Earth

• A mountain range in Asia

• A type of weather pattern

What is a hemisphere?

• A) A type of map

• B) A direction on a compass

• C) Half of the Earth, divided by the equator or prime meridian

• D) A type of landform

What does a historical map show?

• A) The current political boundaries

• B) What a place looked like or how it was used in the past

• C) The weather patterns of a region

• D) The types of vegetation in an area

What are intermediate directions?

• A) Directions like north and south

• B) Directions like northeast and southwest, between the cardinal directions

• C) Directions used only in navigation

• D) Directions that are not used on maps

What does a landform map show?

• A) The political boundaries of countries

• B) Features like mountains, valleys, and plains on Earth's surface

• C) The population density of a region

• D) The climate zones of the world

What is a locator on a map?

• A tool to measure distance

• A small box showing where the main map is located

• A symbol for mountains

• A type of compass

What does a map key explain?

• The distance between two points

• The symbols and colors used on a map

• The direction of north

• The type of terrain