Geography and Environment Quiz

The Amazon River Basin, the world’s largest tropical rain forest, is in what continent?

• North America

• South America

• Asia

• Australia

Longitude lines east of the prime meridian are numbered __ through 80 degrees east.

An imaginary circle on the earth's surface passing through the North and South Poles; a line or parallel of longitude

• Meridian

• Latitude

• Degree

• Parallel

What term is used to refer to lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole?

• Degrees

• Parallels

• Longitude

• Latitude

What term is used to describe the aligning or positioning of oneself or a map in relation to the surroundings?

• Correlating

• Orienting

• Scaling

• Modifying

Topographic maps use two more colors than road maps. White is used for _______ and reddish-brown is used for _________.

• man-made and relief features / void of vegetation

• void of vegetation / man-made and relief features

When you are reading a grid coordinate, always read _____ first, then _____.

• right / up

• down / left

• up / left

• up / right

An angular difference between true north and either magnetic or grid north

• Orient

• Declination

• Magnetic North

• True North

• Orienteering

When contour lines are widely spaced at the top of the feature and closely spaced at the bottom, the slope is considered _______.

• conclave

• concentric

• convex

A low point between two areas of higher ground

• Draw

• Saddle

• Ridge

• Spur

• Sinkhole