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Unit #1 Geography

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the line located at the 0 degree line of latitude?

a)

North Pole

b)

Equator

c)

Prime Meridian

d)

Ecuador

2.

What gest distorted on a map since the Earth isn’t flat?

a)

distance and water

b)

land and water

c)

size and distance

d)

size and location

3.

What do you call the line that separates the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemisphere?

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

4.

What is the name of the line located at the 0 degree line of longitude?

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Minister

c)

South Pole

d)

Prime Meridian

5.

What do you call a deep valley with steep sides?

a)

contigious

b)

territory

c)

geographer

d)

canyon

6.

What do you call the exact location of a place?

a)

relative location

b)

exact location

c)

close location

d)

absolute location

7.

What landform is found in Western Florida?

a)

The Everglades

b)

Lake Okeechobee

c)

Gulf Coastal Plain

d)

Appalachian Mountains

8.

The Continental Divide is located near . . .

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

California

d)

Prime Meridian

9.

What two states border Florida?

a)

Georgia and Atlanta

b)

Georgia and Alabama

c)

Alabama and Mississippi

d)

Georgia and Mississippi

10.

An area of land controlled by a nation is called?

a)

contiguous

b)

territory

c)

canyon

d)

relative location

11.

What two states in the United States are not contiguous?

a)

Alaska and Florida

b)

Hawaii and Main

c)

Alaska and Hawaii

d)

Hawaii and Alabama

12.

What systems uses data to manage, analyze, and share geographic information?

a)

GIS

b)

SIG

c)

GPS

d)

PGS

13.

What do you call the location of a place in relation to other landmarks?

a)

close location

b)

relative location

c)

absolute location

d)

exact location

14.

What do you call an imaginary line on Earth that goes from North to South?

a)

longitude

b)

latitude

15.

What do you call an imaginary line on Earth that goes around Earth from East to West?

a)

latitude

b)

longitude

16.

What do you call someone who studies geography?

a)

geography

b)

geograph

c)

geographer

17.

A ___________ shows direction on a map.

a)

compass rose

b)

map key

c)

scale

d)

title

18.

What do you call the box on a map that contains symbols and colors to show what they mean?

a)

distance

b)

compass rose

c)

map legend

d)

map scale

19.

What do you call the line that separates the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Equator

20.

What do you call the part of the map that shows distance?

a)

map scale

b)

map legend

c)

map key

d)

compass rose

21.

A ____________ is when one river flows into another river.

a)

canyon

b)

territory

c)

tributary

d)

geography

22.

Which region are the Great Lakes located?

a)

Northeast

b)

Southeast

c)

Midwest

d)

West

23.

A river that is wide enough deep enough for the passage of ships is called a ___________.

a)

navigable

b)

tributary

c)

territory

d)

contiguous

24.

How were the Great Lakes formed?

a)

They were man made.

b)

Glaciers melted.

c)

They are part of the Artic ocean.