Components of geography.
What are the 3 major climate zones?
Tropical, Temperate, and Polar.
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa.
What is a 2d display of the Earth called?
A map.
What is the capital of the U.S.A?
Washington D.C.
The Prime Meridian separates the Earth into what two hemispheres?
The east and west hemispheres.
How many continents are there?
7.
China
How is physical geography different from human geography?
Physical geography consists of naturally occurring landforms, climates, etc. While human geography contains the cities, countries, human made attraction, etc.
What country is directly south of California?
Mexico.
What part of a map shows N, S, E, W directions
The compass rose.
What is the difference of climate and weather? (Answer must be accurate to a significant extent)
Which of the seven wonders of the world is located in the U.S.A?
The Grand Canyon.
What is the definition of a landform?
A natural feature of the Earth’s surface.
What is the largest country in the world?
Which continent is in all four hemispheres?
Africa.
What landform is formed by magma swelling and protruding from the mantle but not quite reaching the surface, as weathering erodes the sides to create a steep edge.
A plateau.
How many seasons are in a Polar climate zone?
What is the purpose of a globe?
To show a more accurate representation of the Earth’s surface without distortion.
(Use Globe) What country has the coordinates 39.9 N, 116 E
China.
The Equator is the center of the lines of _______?
Lines of latitude.
(500 points for attempting this question) What landform is a thin strip of land with water on two sides connecting to much larger pieces of land?
An Isthmus.
Which continent has the most countries?
Africa, with 54.
What is the purpose of geography?
To understand the Earth and it’s features including physical, human and many more.
What is the capital the U.K?
What part of the map shows the relevant length
The map scale.