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100

True or False:  The truest representation of the earth is a polar projection.

What is false?

100

True or False:  Physical geography is the study of physical features of the earth.

True

100

True or False: Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, is located in Asia.

True


100

True or False: Most of the land masses in the world are in the Northern Hemisphere.

True.


200

What type of projection is this?

a. Interrupted-Area

b. Mercator

c.  Polar

b.

200

The study of culture is called _____________ geography.

a. applied

b. cultural

c. urban

d. political

b. cultural
200

True or False:  Mountains have the highest temperature of any landform.

False.  

For every 300 feet in elevation, the temperature falls one degree.

200

Choose the location that best describes FORESTS.

a.  plains

b. mountains

c. oceans

d. plateaus

b. mountains

300

True or False: All maps have distortions.

True.

300

The study of climates and their effect on people is called:

a.  astronomy

b. geology

c. meteorology

d. climatology

d.  climatology

300

Choose the best location for easy transportation.

a. plains

b. plateaus

c. mountains

d. oceans

a. plains

Transportation is easiest here because of mostly flat land.

300

Choose the best location for EASY TRANSPORTATION.

a. plains

b. plateaus

c. mountains

d. oceans

a. plains

Transportation is easy because of the relative flatness of the land...no major changes in elevation.

400

True or False: An interrupted-area projection shows the least distortion in land areas.

True.

400

The study of the earth's atmosphere and the factors that are important in weather analysis and forecasting is called:

a.  astrology

b.  astronomy

c.  meteorology

d.  geography

c.  meteorology

400

Choose the best location for MINING.

a.  mountains

b. plateaus

c. plains

d. oceans


a. mountains

One of the three most common occupations in the mountains besides grazing and logging. Mountains are "storehouses of minerals".

400

Choose the answer that best describes COOL and DRY.

a.  plateaus

b. mountains

c. oceans

d. plains

a. plateaus

Plateaus are cool because of their higher elevation and they are dry because clouds lose their moisture through condensation before they blow over the plateaus.

500

The disadvantage of an interrupted-area projection is that it is hard to see the relationship between ____________________.

a.  bodies of water

b.  water and land

c.  continents

d.  none of the above

c.  continents

500

The study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products is called:

a. geography

b. anthropology

c. geometry

d. geology

a. GEOGRAPHY!!

500

Choose the best location for INDUSTRIES (factories, manufacturing, etc.).

a.  mountains

b. plains

c. oceans

d. plateaus

b. plains

Trade and manufacturing are developed more easily on the plains because of good transportation due to the flatness of the land.

500

Choose the best TWO locations for GRAZING.

plains

plateaus

oceans

mountains

plains and plateaus

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