Terms Group 1
What form of geography is Mountainview Middle School?
What is human geography?
What type of location tells the exact location of place?
Absolute location
What line of latitude is found at 66.5 degrees S?
Artic Circle
What line is at 0 degrees latitude?
Equator
What is the largest continent?
Asia
What type of geography is the Sahara Desert?
Physical Geography
Describe what relative location is.
The location of a place in relation to another place (or something along those lines)
Use the map on the world atlas pages 12 and 13. It's January and we are in Canada. What season is it?
Winter
Describe parallels of longitude.
These are lines that run north/south and meet at the poles. (or something along those lines)
Describe the International Date Line?
It is found at 180 degrees, It is the place of Earth where the day changes, and it's found on the opposite side of the planet from the Prime Meridian (or something along those lines)
How do you write coordinates? What is the order?
Latitude, longitude
What causes day and night and takes 24 hours?
Rotation
Use the map of the world atlas pages 12 and 13. It's May. What season is it in Australia?
Fall
Describe parallels of latitude.
These are the lines that circle the Earth in an East/West direction and never touch each other (Or something along those lines)
4 continents border the Indian Ocean. Can you name 3 of them?
Australia, Asia, Africa, Antarctica
What is the difference between cardinal and intermediate direction?
Cardinal are the four primary points on a compass, and intermediate are the ones between them like northeast, southwest.
How many days does it take for Earth to perform a full revolution?
365 1/4 days or year
Why are all map projections distorted?
The Earth is spherical. Maps are flat, so they are stretched and squeezed in places. (Or something along those lines).
Use the map found on atlas page 74 and 75 of the United States. What city is located at 38 degrees N, and 109 degrees W?
Moab, Utah
Use the map of Central Asia on atlas page 179. How far is it from Dushanbe, Tajikistan (yellow) to Kabul, Afghanistan (purple)?
240-290 miles
A river flooded in a city is a physical geographic event, but how the people in the city respond to the flood would create what form of geography?
Human Geography
Name at least three ways a map can be distorted.
Size distortion, shape distortion, position/location distortion, Distance distortion, direction distortion.
What climate zones have four seasons
Temperate zone
Use the map found on atlas pages 74 and 75 of the United States. At what coordinates of latitude and longitude would you find Washington, D.C.?(within 1 degree is good)
Approximately 39 degrees N, 77 degrees W
Use the map of Central Asia on atlas page 179. How far is it from Astana, Kazakhstan (purple) to Tashkent, Uzbekistan (orange)?
650-700 miles