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WorksheetsUnit 1: Essentials of Geography (1st half)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What do geographers use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine?
a)
Absolute location
b)
Relative Location
c)
Region
d)
Cities
2.
What divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere?
a)
The Arctic Circle
b)
Antarctics
c)
The Equator
d)
The Prime Meridian
3.
Which phrase describes an absolute location?
a)
I live by the high school.
b)
55° North, 12° East
c)
10° South of the Equator
d)
The Northern Hemisphere
4.
What is one way that latitude lines and longitude lines are different?
a)
Nothing. They are the same.
b)
Latitude lines start at the North Pole; longitude lines start at the South Pole.
c)
Latitude lines never touch each other; longitude lines meet.
d)
One starts at the North Pole and one starts at the South Pole.
5.
What divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
a)
The Prime Meridian
b)
Tropic of Cancer
c)
Tropic of Capricorn
d)
The Equator
6.
What do Geographers study?
a)
What people produce, sell, and buy.
b)
The location of places and the people that live there.
c)
How much produce a country produces.
d)
Where dinosaurs once lived.
7.
The President, Congress, and Mayors are examples of which ESPN catergory?
a)
Political
b)
Social
c)
Economic
d)
eNvironment
8.
The way societies organize the production and distribution of goods and services is known as:
a)
Political Systems
b)
Education
c)
Social
d)
Economic Systems
9.
The physical geography of a place and how people adapt to and modify their surroundings is known as:
a)
the eNvironment
b)
Economic Systems
c)
Political Systems
d)
Social Systems
10.
Which direction would someone have to drive to get to California from Dallas?
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
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