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100

What is the science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface?

Geography

100

What name did the German map maker Martin Waldseemuller propose to give to the new world?

America

100

What are two causes of dramatic changes in the earth?

Volcanoes and earthquakes 

100

What kind of a map helps people get from one place to another?

Navigational

100

What is the name of the imaginary lateral lines that are parallel to the equator?

Latitude

200

What is the study of how physical geography impacts human activity and how human activity impacts physical geography?

Human geography 

200

What did the female geolo Marie Tharp help to map?

The ocean

200

What is the term for the increasing interconnectedness of production  and trade among nations and the increasing dependence of many nations on economic activity outside of their borders?

Globalization 

200

What kind of a map shows elements of an area’s terrain?

Physical or topographical 

200

Where on earth does a day begin?

International Date Line

300

What is the term for the moving of the plates in the earth’s crust and outer mantle?

Plate tectonics 

300

What project has aimed to develop a 3-D map of the earth using satellite images?

Google Earth

300

What is the term for the indiscriminate cutting of trees without planting new ones?

Deforestation 

300

What kids of a map shows the borders of states and countries?

Geopolitical 

300

What is the name for the zero degree meridian of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England?

Prime Meridian

400

What is the term for the impact that every astronaut has reported of being deeply affected by looking back at the earth beneath them?

Overview effect

400

What does GPS stand for?

Global positioning system

400

What country’s military had the goal of mapping the entire world during the Cold War?

The Soviet Union

400

What is the process of transfer locations on a map?

Projection

400

What parallel of latitude is about 23 degrees, 26 minutes north of the equator? 

Tropic of Cancer

500

The conditions of the earth being just right for human life has led to the planet being called what?

The Goldilocks planet

500

What term is used to describe the age in which we live?

Information Age or technological age

500

What is the term that describes how a map is positioned?

Orientation

500

What two men became printers in Chicago in 1856 and eventually published their first map in 1872?

(William) Rand and (Andrew) McNalley

500

What is the name given to the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle?

Southern temperate zone

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