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Understanding Geography and Mapping Concepts

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the study of the physical, biological, and cultural features of Earth's surface called?

a)

Cartography

b)

Geography

c)

Human Geography

d)

Topography

2.

Which term describes the study of where and why human activities are located where they are?

a)

Human Geography

b)

Cartography

c)

Physical Geography

d)

Economic Geography

3.

What is the science of making maps known as?

a)

Geography

b)

Cartography

c)

Topography

d)

Geology

4.

What is a book of maps called?

a)

Atlas

b)

Gazetteer

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Dictionary

5.

Which term refers to an area defined by one or more natural or cultural characteristics that set it apart from other areas?

a)

Landscape

b)

Region

c)

Location

d)

Place

6.

What is an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics called?

a)

Functional Region

b)

Perceptual Region

c)

Formal Region

d)

Cultural Region

7.

How do people think about or perceive a region, such as "the Middle East"?

a)

Functional Region

b)

Perceptual Region (Vernacular)

c)

Formal Region

d)

Cultural Region

8.

What is an area organized around a node or focal point called?

a)

Functional Region (Nodal Region)

b)

Formal Region

c)

Perceptual Region

d)

Cultural Region

9.

What is the term for the position of anything on Earth's surface?

a)

Place

b)

Location

c)

Region

d)

Landscape

10.

What is the uniqueness of a location referred to as?

a)

Place

b)

Location

c)

Region

d)

Landscape

11.

What is the distance north or south of the equator called?

a)

Longitude

b)

Latitude

c)

Altitude

d)

Elevation

12.

What measures distance east and west from the Prime Meridian?

a)

Latitude

b)

Longitude

c)

Altitude

d)

Elevation

13.

What is an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth at 0 degrees latitude?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Equator

c)

Tropic of Cancer

d)

Tropic of Capricorn

14.

What is 0 degrees longitude known as?

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

International Date Line

d)

Tropic of Cancer

15.

Which type of map shows units such as countries, states, provinces, and districts?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Topographic Map

d)

Economic Map