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Geography
Geography 2
Our Earth's surface
Miscellaneous
100
What are the two different types of resources that we discussed in class?
Renewable and Nonrenewable
100
What is the study of the people and places of Earth called?
Geography
100
What are two examples of landforms?
Possible answers: mountains, valleys, oceans, lakes
100
Name the four hemispheres?
Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Hemisphere
100
Which lines on the globe run parallel to the equator?
latitude
200
What are things that come from the natural environment that people use?
Natural Resources
200
What is all of our surroundings and conditions that affect living things called?
Environment
200
Human features describe the ways people live. Give two examples of human features that geographers study.
Possible answers: religion, language, food, jobs, beliefs
200
What imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
equator
200
Which lines run between the North and South poles?
lines of longitude
300
What is an example of a renewable resource?
trees or coal
300
What are three examples of things in our environment?
Possible answers: plants, animals, water, land, weather
300
What is the name for a model of the earth that is shaped like a sphere?
A globe
300
What is the line called that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemisphere?
The Prime Meridian
300
What is a huge slab of slowly moving rock that causes rocks in the Earth's crust to break and move?
Tectonic plate
400
Which is an example of a nonrenewable resource? trees or iron
iron
400
What is the name of the scientist who study geography?
Geographers
400
Name three things that a globe can show us.
Possible answers: oceans and land masses such as continents,
400
Which hemisphere is the United States located in?
Northwestern Hemisphere
400
What is the process of wearing away rock and soil?
erosion
500
What is an energy source formed by the remains of things that lived long ago called?
Fossil fuels
500
What are the three questions that geographers ask?
Where is it? Why is it there? What is it like there?
500
What is one half of the Earth's surface called?
a hemisphere
500
What are the two types of lines on a globe that help geographers to locate things?
latitude and longitude
500
What are three things that can cause erosion?
Possible answers: glaciers, moving water, wind
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