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Terms
Climate
Continents, Oceans & Hemispheres
Types, Parts, & Projections
Lat & Long/T Zones
100
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land
What is an isthmus?
100
Temperature and precipitation at a given moment
What is weather?
100
Australia is in these two hemispheres
What are South and East?
100
The most commonly used projection
What is a Robinson Projection?
100
Use pages A4-A5, written answers only. What country in located at 61'N, 16'E
Sweden
200
The most accurate way of portraying the surface of the earth
What is a globe?
200
Latitude, elevation, distance from a body of water, & local geography
What are the four factors that affect climate?
200
This ocean is to the north of Europe
What is the Arctic Ocean?
200
The type of map that shows the countries and cities of southeast Asia
What is a political map?
200
Use pages A4-A5, written answers only. What is the latitude and longitude of the 'M' in Mexico City?
20'N, 111'W
300
A long, narrow inlet carved out by glacial erosion
What is a fjord?
300
Middle latitudes are also known as....
What are the 'temperate zones'?
300
These two lines separate the eastern and western hemispheres.
What are the 'Prime Meridian' & the "International Date Line'?
300
What would be impossible to understand on a map without a scale?
Distances
300
Use pages A16-A17, written answers only. If it is 3:42AM in Sydney, What time is it in Madrid?
6:42PM
400
The study of where things are on the earth's surface and why they are there
What is geography?
400
Areas closer to a large body of water have temperatures that are generally ______ than those further away.
What is milder?
400
Two continents or oceans (or one of each) that appear in all four hemispheres
What is Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Asia & Africa
400
A way of showing the curved surface of the earth on a flat map
What is a projection?
400
Use pages A4-A5, written answers only. What is the latitude and longitude of the Kerguelen Islands (southern Indian Ocean)?
48'S, 70'E
500
Man made channels for water
What are canals?
500
Why is a 'climate regions' map more helpful than a 'climate zones' map?
A climate regions map takes into account all four factors that affect climate, while a climate zones map only takes into account latitude
500
If someone left southern Africa, traveled west across the ocean, walked to the northern part of the continent to the north, crossed the ocean to the east, and then walked east until they were in a different continent. What continent would they be in?
Asia
500
Why is no projection perfect?
The curved surface of the earth cannot be properly displayed on a flat map. Either features or distances must be distorted.
500
Use pages A4-A5 and pages A16-A17, written answers only. If it is 12:06PM at 14'N, 101'E, What time is it at 11'S, 77'W?
12:06AM