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Geography Intro

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following statements is an example of absolute location?

a)

The Empire State Building is located at N 40°44ʹ54ʺ, W 73°59ʹ8ʺ.

b)

Missouri is located east of Kansas.

c)

Washington, DC, is 38 degrees north of Quito, Ecuador.

d)

Johnson Memorial Hospital is about 20 blocks from New York’s Central Park.

e)

Pennsylvania is south of New York, west of New Jersey, and east of Ohio.

2.

What is the main type of information that this map shows?

a)

density of green plants at different places in the world

b)

human-made and natural features of Earth

c)

natural resources found at different places in the world

d)

information about the climate at different places in the world

e)

human-made government boundaries in the world

3.

You are driving from Illinois to Nebraska. Which direction are you driving?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

4.

What are the 5 themes of geography?

a)

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions

b)

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, Physics

c)

Voyage, Mission, Journey, Odyssey, Adventure

d)

Iowa, Nebraska, California, Alaska, Nevada

5.

South Dakota is directly North of which state?

a)

Iowa

b)

Nebraska

c)

Minnesota

d)

North Dakota

6.

How many continents are found on Earth?

a)

3

b)

7

c)

9

d)

5

7.

What was the name of the super continent from 250 million years ago?

a)

Atlantis

b)

Tibet

c)

Pangea

d)

Asia

8.

Which is the most important line of latitude?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Equator

c)

Tropic of Cancer

d)

Tropic of Capricorn

9.

What is the most important line of Longitude?

a)

Tropic of Cancer

b)

Prime meridian

c)

Equator

d)

Tropic of Capricorn

10.

How people adapt to &/or change the environment

a)

movement

b)

relative location

c)

human interaction

d)

cartography

11.

A position on the Earth’s surface

a)

location

b)

region

c)

longitude

d)

latitude

12.

The physical & human characteristics of a location

a)

movement

b)

relative location

c)

longitude

d)

place

13.

What type of map is this?

a)

Political

b)

Physical

c)

Thematic

14.

What type of map is this?

a)

Political

b)

Physical

c)

Thematic

15.

What type of map shows natural features of the earth?

a)

Physical

b)

Political

c)

Thematic

16.

Which type of map shows man-made features such as borders and cities?

a)

Physical

b)

Political

c)

Thematic

17.

What type of map shows specific data or information?

a)

Physical

b)

Political

c)

Thematic

18.

What type of map is this?

a)

climate map

b)

economic resource map

c)

physical map

d)

political map

e)

topographic map