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WorksheetsGeography Ch. 1-2 Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Define Geography
Study of maps
Study of absolute and relative location
Study of place and space
What are the main types of maps?
Religion, environment, and landforms
Physical, Political, Thematic
Migration, political, region
The 5 themes of Geography are Movement, Relationships, Human-Enviorment Interaction, Location, and Place?
True
False
What is the Prime Meridian?
Divides the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Divides the earth between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
One half of the earth
What are the Tropics?
Tropic of Scorpio and Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Taurus and Tropic of Capricorn
What are cartograms?
Map feature that gives physical representation on a map.
A map in which some thematic mapping variable is substituted for landscape or distance.
Thematic map
What is a map?
a three dimensional representation of the earth shows the whole surface.
A two dimensional usually only show part of the earths surface
Thing that shows places
Define atmosphere
Layer of gas surrounding earth
Solid rock portion of the earth's surface
Where plants and animals live
What are plate tectonics?
Thin layer of rock
Fossil
Movement of large plates (crust) above magma in the mantle
What’s the lowest point on earth?
Mariana trench
Death Valley
Dead Sea
What does a seismograph measure?
volcanoes magma
Convergent subduction
Size waves created by an earthquake
What is Mechanical weathering?
When rocks and other minerals are broken into smaller pieces
When minerals are changed completely when they mix with water and air
Wind blown silt, sand, and clay
What percentage of water is drinkable?
3%
2%
70%
How many oceans are there? What are their names?
3; Pacífic, Atlantic, and Artic
5; Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Southern, and Artic
4; Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, and Artic
What is glaciation?
changes in a landform made from a slowly moving sheet of ice (glacier)
Rocks left behind after a glacier moves
Drinkable Water
What is physical geography?
the study of place and space
the study of the human landscape of the earth
the study of the natural landscape of the earth
Does a cartographer make maps?
True
False
What is an Atlas
A book of maps
A map
A globe
What is a political map
shows natural features such as landforms and physical borders
shows features on the earth’s surface that humans created
shows themes on the earth's surface
Is latitude and longitude a grid for finding your location on the earth?
True
False
What is the equator?
divides the eastern from western hemisphere
one half of the earth
divides the earth between Northern hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere
What is chemical weathering?
when rocks and other minerals are broken into smaller pieces
when minerals are changed completely when they mix with water and air
wind blown silt, sand, and clay
This is made through the process of weathering and erosion, what is it?
Soil
Water
Glacier
What is the hydrosphere?
layers of gas surrounding the earth
where plants and animals live
all water elements of the earth
What is a Loess?
is wind blown silt, sand, and clay
changes in a landform are from a slowly moving sheet of ice
rocks left behind after a glacier moves
