Geographers use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine this.
What is absolute location (latitude and longitude)?
100
This line divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
100
This is the term for a level area of land with cliffs on all sides.
What is a plateau?
100
Protecting these is the best way to help protect plants and animals from becoming endangered or extinct.
What is a habitat?
100
This term describes a society with a highly developed culture and technology.
What is a civilization?
200
This is the most commonly practiced religion in the world.
What is Christianity?
200
In this type of economy, businesses are privately owned. It is also called a market economy or capitalism. It is the type of economy that we have in the United States.
What is free enterprise?
200
Iron ore, a raw material, is used to make this. It can be used in building skyscrapers and autos.
What is steel?
200
This is the height of physical features above sea level. Cartographers use color to show it on a map.
What is elevation?
200
All maps do this because cartographers cannot take a round surface and make it flat without changing the shapes, areas, distances and directions found in the real world.
What is distort?
300
Continents move because these, found on earth's crust, change position over time.
What are tectonic plates?
300
Wisconsin is located in these two hemispheres.
What is Northern and Western?
300
Sikhism and this religion, widely practiced in India, both believe that souls are reborn.
What is Hinduism?
300
This is defined as the process by which rocks and soil slowly break apart and are swept away.
What is erosion?
300
This type of storm has stronger winds than a cyclone.
What is a tornado?
400
A geographer would use this kind of scale to show the southern half of Africa.
What is small-scale?
400
Using a dam to store water is an example of this theme of geography.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
400
This sector of economic activity involves using raw materials from the soil or water.
What is the primary sector?
400
This type of thematic map is often used to show the population in and around a city.
What is a dot density map?
400
These lines tell us how far north or south of the Equator a place is located.
What are latitude lines?
500
An example of this theme of geography is the Midwest. It describes an area with common characteristics.
What is a region?
500
Australia experiences the autumn equinox during this month.
What is March?
500
When an air mass moves into an area, this will often happen.
What is a change in weather?
500
This type of map projection shows direction accurately, making it useful for navigation.
What is a Mercator Projection?
500
These are similarities among places. An example would be that many large cities are located near bodies of water.