Geography Terms and locations
Lines of a grid map that run left to right (east to west) are called?
What type of government system do we have here in the USA?
Democracy
What does the term Absolute location mean?
Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates.
What does the term Erosion mean?
the process of eroding or being eroded away by wind, water, or other natural agents
what year was did World World II End?
1945
Lines that run up and down (north and south) are called?
lines of longitude
The Leader (chief executive) of the USA is called the?
President
What does the term Compass Rose Mean?
A tool used to tell direction on a map. Cardinal (north south east west) intermediate (northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast.)
Mexico City is known to have the Worst one of this environmental issue?
Hint: Cough, Cough.
Air pollution
What state was the Civil War battle of Kennesaw mountain Fought in?
Hint: This place sounds familiar
Georgia
The main longitude line that runs north and south and splits the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres is called?
Prime Meridian
What type of government system does the country of North Korea have?
Autocracy (Dictatorship)
What does the term Projections mean?
Different ways of showing the earth on a flat piece of paper.
In the 1952 a major city in England experience the worst impacts of air pollution. This event was called the great smog disaster. What city did this happen in?
The great smog of London disaster
Name two countries that were considered a part of the "Axis powers" during world war II?
Germany, Japan, Italy
Which country would you find the Black Forest?
Hint: this country was part of the axis powers in WWII
Germany
Who gets the elect the chief executive in a democratic government?
Hint: We have the freedom
The citizens
What does the term Map Key mean?
Explains what lines, symbols, and colors represent on a map
What is the biggest environmental Issue facing the Great Lakes?
Hint* Think of what is there a lot of there?
Water pollution
Who was elected president in the year 2008?
Hint: First African American to become president
Barack Obama
How many hemispheres do we have?
Can you name all of them?
Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Hemispheres
The word DEMOCRACY comes from which ancient civilization?
Hint: they have a salad named after them
Zeus?
the Greeks
What does the term Great Circle Mean?
Is an imaginary line that follows the curve of the earth.
What was the chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties.
What year did the American Civil War begin?
1860