Geographic Setting
The precise point on Earth where a particular place can be found is called its
What is absolute location.
What is the purpose of a compass rose?
To show direction on a map.
Which of the following run east and west around the globe?
What are parallels of latitude.
The spinning motion of Earth on its axis is called
What is rotation?
You invite a friend to play basketball at a park. You tell him the park is two blocks north of the school. You have just described the park’s
What is relative location.
What are the Cardinal Directions?
What is North, East, South and West.
The line that marks 0° longitude is the
What is the prime meridian.
When the Northern Hemisphere tilted toward the sun what season is the Southern Hemisphere in
What is Winter
What is the main problem with showing a spherical Earth on a flat map?
What is distortion?
What are the Intermediate Directions?
The line that marks 180 degrees longitude is called what
The tilt of Earth’s axis toward the ______________ causes the changing of _________________ throughout the year.
The two continents that are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere are
What is North America and South America.
When finding an absolute location, what do you find first
What is Latitude.
Which two lines mark the northernmost and southernmost points beyond which the suns rays never beat straight down?
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
When the sun shines straight down on the Tropic of Cancer, what season is it in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
A map’s scale compares distance on a map with distance on
What is Earth?
Lines of latitude are also called?
What are parallels.
What are lines of longitude also called
What are Meridians.
Earth moves around the sun in a nearly circular path called an
What is an orbit