Five Themes
Globe Lines
Map Skills
Map skills 2
Geo trivia
100
40 degrees north, 50 degrees west is an example of what?
What is absolute location?
100
What is the imaginary line that runs north and south at 0 degrees longitude?
What is the prime meridian?
100
What are the cardinal directions
What are North, South, East and West?
100
This is a representation of Earth, showing places, locations, and features.
What is a Map?
100
Which country in Europe is also known as "The Boot"
What is Italy?
200
What are examples of things that are moved in geography?
What are goods, movement and ideas?
200
Also called meridians, these lines run between the north and south poles
What is lines of longitude?
200
a symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
200
This type of map focuses on showing natural features like mountains, rivers, and deserts.
What is a Physical Map?
200
What province is one to the right of Manitoba?
What is Ontario?
300
When you have an area that share two or more characteristics it is what theme of geography?
Example: Babbitt has many trees and iron ore deposits.
What is Region?
300
Which map shows elevation changes using contour lines?
What is a topographic map?
300
What is located in I3
What is Australia?
300
What type of map shows borders, countries, cities, and capitals?
Political Map
300
Which of the following is a large-scale map?
A) A map of the world
B) A map of Manitoba
C) A map of Canada
D) A map of downtown Winnipeg
D) A map of downtown Winnipeg
400
People in Spain speak the Spanish language is an example of what theme of geography?
What is place?
400
These lines run parallel to the equator and measure north and south.
What is lines of latitude?
400
True or False: Map projections are not always distorted
What is False?
400
What type of scale does a map have if it shows a large area with very little detail?
What is a small-scale map?
400
What is the most accurate way to represent the Earth
What is a globe?
500
Changing the shape of the land by mining is an example of which of the five themes of geography?
What is human-environment interaction?
500
An imaginary line that runs around the center of the earth, halfway between the north and south poles at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
500
What gets distorted when you project a 3d globe onto a flat map?
What is shape, area, distance, or direction?
500
Which of the following is a small-scale map?
A) A neighborhood street map
B) A hiking trail map
C) A world map
D) A school floor plan
C) A world map
500
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River