The special computer software geographers us is called
A. GOS
B. GPS
C. GIS
D. GLB
What is GIS?
100
The tilt of the Earth and its travel around the sun cause changes in the
A. seasons
B. equinoxes
C. Tropic of Cancer
D. Tropic of Capricorn
What are seasons?
100
The process of breaking surface rock into boulders, gravel, sand, and soil is called
A. weathering
B. freezing
C. faulting
D. plating
What is weathering?
100
A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water is called
A. peninsula
B. strait
C. river
D. stream
What is a strait?
100
Name the two parts the core can be split into
What are the inner and outer core?
200
The main tools geographers use
A. regions
B. relative location
C. maps and globes
D. latitude and longitude
What are maps and globes?
200
The Earth rotates on its
A. axis
B. lines of latitude
C. lines of longitude
D. revolution
What is axis?
200
Giant sheets of ice are called
A. straits
B. erosion
C. plateaus
D. glaciers
What are glaciers?
200
The lowest spots in the Earth's crust are called
A. channels
B. valleys
C. mountains
D. trenches
What are trenches?
200
How many days are in a year?
What 365 1/4 days?
300
Physical geography is the study of Earth's
A. two hemispheres
B. atmosphere
C. land, water, plant, and animal life
D. neighboring planets
What is land, water, plant, and animal life?
300
Earth's most important companion in space is
A. the sun
B. the moon
C. Mercury
D. Mr. Kightlinger
What is the sun?
300
The relatively thin, uppermost layer of the Earth is the
A. magma
B. plate
C. crust
D. soil
What is the crust?
300
Deposits of sand and soil at the mouth of a river form a
A. delta
B. plateau
C. trench
D. swamp
What is a delta?
300
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere when we have Spring?
What is Fall?
400
One way geographers gather information for accurate maps is by studying
A. landforms
B. photographs taken from high above Earth
C. the grid system
D. lines of latitude
What are photographs taken from high above Earth?
400
The layer of air surrounding the Earth is called
A. a landform
B. outer space
C. the equinox
D. the atmosphere
What is the atmosphere?
400
Undersea earthquakes can cause huge waves called
A. straits
B. peninsulas
C. tsunamis
D. isthmuses
What is tsunamis?
400
A body of land completely surrounded by water is called
A. isthmus
B. environment
C. island
D. atmosphere
What is an island?
400
What is the 5th planet away from the sun?
What is Jupiter?
500
What two characteristics do geographers study about a place?
A. physical and human
B. latitude and longitude
C. GPS and GIS
D. maps and globes
What are physical and human?
500
The planets in the solar system revolve around the
A. atmosphere
B. asteroids
C. sun
D. moon
What is the sun?
500
A violent and sudden movement of the Earth's crust is
A. a tsunami
B. an earthquake
C. a plate tectonic
D. a magma
What is an earthquake?
500
Low-lying stretches of flat or gently rolling land are called
A. plateaus
B. islands
C. elevations
D. plains
What are plains?
500
What is the official name of the moon that orbits the Earth?