Geography Review

Earth

100

Earth's movement around the sun...takes 365.5 days

Revolution

200

Earth's movement from one spot and back again...takes 24 hours

Rotation 

300

The Earth turns this direction

A. Upward
B. Downward
C. Southward
D. Eastward

Eastward

400

Earth's movement inside the galaxy through space.

A. Rotation
B. Revolution
C. Gestation
D. Galactic Movement

Galactic Movement

500

Earth has how many basic movements? 

Three

More Earth etc.

100

The dividing line that separates day from night is known as the...

a. Equator                

 b. Circle of Illumination                  

 c. Equinox    

d. Tropic of Artic

Circle of Illumination

200

Which three phenomena occur as a result of revolution and rotation?

            a. Day and Night
            b. Changing of Seasons
            c. Variations in Daylight hours
            d. Global Variation

A, B, C

300

If you look down at the Earth from above the North Pole, which direction does the Earth move?
            a. Clockwise

            b. Counterclockwise

            c. Upward

            d. Downward

Counterclockwise

400

What is the plane of the ecliptic?

a. The constant plane Earth moves around the the sun.

b. The plane from the North to South Pole

c. The Areoplane

d. None of the above

A. The constant plane Earth moves around the sun on

500

What is the plane of the ecliptic?
            a. No answer is correct

            b. The plane from the North to South Pole

            c. The plane the moon revolves around                    Earth.

            d. The constant plane Earth moves                          around the the sun.

   d. The constant plane Earth moves                          around the the sun.

Dear god...not more Earth

100

• What determines the linear velocity of earth’s surface?
• The distance of a location from the Sun
• The distance of a location from the Moon
• The distance of a location from the Equator
• The distance of a location from the Agonic Line
• Distance from the Poles

e. distance from the poles

200

• Why are we unaware of the speed of rotation?
• The Earth’s atmosphere moves too
• Gravity
• Both a & b
• None of the above

c. Both a & b

300

• The tilt of the earth’s Equator to its ecliptic is __________ degrees

a. 2.35

b. 23.5                

c. 45               

d. 180

b. 23.5

400

• What causes the seasons on Earth?
• Distance from the moon
• Distance from the equator
• Tilt of the Earth’s Equator
• Periods of darkness

• Tilt of the Earth’s Equator

500

When does the Northern Hemisphere experience summer?

a. When the North Pole is leaning away from the Sun

b. When the South Pole is inclined toward the Sun

c. Both B & C

d. the North Pole is inclined toward the Sun

d. the North Pole is inclined toward the Sun

Just shoot me...more Earth

100

Great circles that divide Earth in half?

a. Revolutions

b. Hemispheres

c. Aphelion

Hemispheres

200

These are approximately 15 degrees apart and there are 24 on Earth.

Time Zones

300

The Earth’s closest point to the Sun?

a. Equator

b. Hemispheres

c. Perihelion

c. Perihelion

400

This is line lies at Zero degrees latitude and divides the Earth in half.

Equator

500

These imaginary lines are used to measure degrees north and south.

Latitude

Flat Earth

100

Flat Earth believers say the Earth is this shape _____________.

Flat

200

you were standing at the South Pole, the North Star would be::
a. Near the horizon       

b. Directly above you  

c. Not visible at all

d. below you

C. Not visible

300

37. During a _______ eclipse, the Earth’s Shadow falls on the moon.

      a. Lunar                     b. Solar                     

      c. Polar                      d. Tidal

b. Lunar

400

Only a ________ can cast a round shadow on the moon.
      a. Sphere                  b. Flat Coin              

      c. 2-D Circle              d. All the above

a. Sphere

500

Things weigh less at the ___________________.

a. North Pole

b. South Pole

c. Tropic of Cancer

d. Equator

d. equator