WorksheetsIntro Unit Test: The Geographer's Tool Box
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Geography involves several focus areas. What are the major introductory themes in geography?
Plate Tectonics
The Water Cycle
Structure of Internal Earth
All Answers are Correct
What challenge do geographers contend with by making 3-Dimensional Earth into 2 dimensions?
Adhesion
Distortion
Isolation
Cohesion
Vertical lines on a map of Earth representing East and West regions and hemispheres are called _________________ lines.
Latitude
Pythagoras
Longitude
Isometric
Horizontal lines on a map of Earth above and below the Equator represent ______________ lines.
Longitude
Latitude
Isolation
Isometric
What is a habitat?
A place where aliens eat pizza.
A place where animals make their home.
A place once owned by Martians.
You constantly do the same thing.
Habitat destruction is a major problem on many continents of the World. What happens because of habitat destruction?
Species grow in population
Species become endangered and extinct.
Species reproduce every three years.
There is actually no effect.
True or False: A geography PHYSICAL MAP shows terrain features such as elevation, mountains, and greener rainfall areas.
True
False
True or False: A geography POLITICAL MAP sometimes shows rivers that you would expect to find on a PHYSICAL MAP.
True
False
What does a physical map with the color of dark orange generally represent?
Higher Elevation
Lower Elevation
On a map of Earth, located at 0 degrees, the invisible blue line stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole is called what?
Equator
Prime Meridian
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
When finding location i.e. grid points on a map, what is read first?
The North and South Boundary Lines above or below the Equator
The West and East Boundary Lines to the left or right of the Prime Meridian.
It's best just to guess.
It's safe just to guess.
The majority of maps we will encounter this year are _____________ Projection Maps.
Homolosine
Robinson
Mercator
Azimuthal
What do Theme Maps focus on?
Special Topics such as Population Density and Natural Resources.
Notebooks formulated from Scientists.
Only political geography.
Only physical geography.
What is an Ecosystem?
Where you pay your cell phone bill.
Where you buy groceries at.
A community of aliens on the Planet Mercury.
A community of plants and animals and their habitat.
Why would a mountain climber need a map?
To show cliffs, canyons, and ice fields.
Just in case he can't get his cell phone to work.
He'd also need a good body guard.
Just in case he runs out of toilet paper.
Mapmakers are also called this?
Photographers
Cartographers
Architects
Graphic Artists
When talking about a physical map, what does the word RELIEF mean?
The height of a physical feature above sea level (ASL).
The change in elevation from one place to another.
How you feel after dinner.
How you feel when you're sleeping.
What do geographers use to graphically show a range of temperature and precipitation in a place over time.
Climate Giraffe
Climograph
Climate Scale
Climb a Tree
"An organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society" is called a _____________.
Government
Theory
Disabled Veterans
CIA
There are five major types of governments in the World. One of them is listed below. Find a type of government.
Authoritarian
Radical
Democracy
I don't know
