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Applying Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Map Symbols
Global Grid
Maps
100

You invite a friend to play soccer at a park. You tell him the park's exact address and he puts it into his GPS. By doing this, he is using:

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. latitude.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

  • A. absolute location.

100

The scientific study of the Earth and how people and the environment interact.

  • A. relative location.

  • B. distortion.

  • C. absolute location.

  • D. geography.

D. geography.

100

What is the purpose of a compass rose? 

  • A. to identify symbols on a map

  • B. to indicate directions on a map

  • C. to tell what the map shows

  • D. to allow people to locate any point on Earth



  • B. to indicate directions on a map

100

Which of the following run east and west around the globe? 

  • A. International Date Line

  • B. longitude

  • C. latitude

  • D. prime meridian

  • C. latitude

100

What two continents are NOT located in the eastern hemisphere?

  • A. North American & Asia

  • B. North American & South America 

  • C. Asia &  Europe 

  • D. Australia & Europe 

  • B. North American & South America 

200

You invite a friend to play basketball at a park. You tell him the park is two blocks north of the school. You have just described the park’s 

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. latitude.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

D. relative location.

200

The precise points where a place is located on Earth.

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. latitude.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

  • A. absolute location.

200

A synonym (another word) for map legend is map 

  • A. guide.

  • B. grid.

  • C. translator.

  • D. key.



  • D. key.

200

Which of the following run north and south around the globe? 

  • A. International Date Line

  • B. longitude

  • C. latitude

  • D. equator 

  • B. longitude

200

What continent is located at the coordinates 45 N and 150 W

  • A. South America 

  • B. Europe 

  • C. Australia

  • D. North America 

  • D. North America 

300

Another name for the global grid (absolute location) is _______

  • A. latitude and longitude lines

  • B. latitude prim meridian 

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative absolute location.


  • A. latitude and longitude lines

300

A change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. distortion.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

  • B. distortion.

300

Which of the following is an intermediate direction? 

  • A. north

  • B. compass rose

  • C. southwest

  • D. latitude

  • C. southwest

300

What is the most important line of latitude?

  • A. International Date Line

  • B. equator 

  • C. prime meridian 

  • D. prime equator

  • B. equator 

300

What should be at the TOP of this map? 

  • A. Compass

  • B. Title

  • C. Map Scale

  • D. Coordinates 

  • B. Title

400

What is the main problem with showing a spherical Earth on a flat map? 

  • A. Only globes can accurately show distances.

  • B. The size, shape, and position of Earth’s features are distorted.

  • C. Maps are more difficult to carry around than globes are.

  • D. The map must be enormous to show any amount of detail.

  • B. The size, shape, and position of Earth’s features are distorted.

400

A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. distortion.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

  • C. map projection.

400

A place’s absolute location is where a line of latitude and a line of longitude meet. These lines' numbers are its geographic ___________.

  • A. coordinates

  • B. compass rose

  • C. grid

  • D. latitude

  • A. coordinates
400

What is the most important line of longitude?

  • A. International Date Line

  • B. equator 

  • C. prime meridian 

  • D. prime equator

  • C. prime meridian 

400

Out of the five sports, which sport had the MOST male participation?

  • A. Tennis

  • B. Football

  • C. Cricket 

  • D. Basketball

  • A. Tennis

500

Which statement about map projections is true? 

  • A. All map projections have some kind of distortion.

  • B. Geographers use map projections that eliminate all distortions.

  • C. No map projection can accurately show the sizes of places.

  • D. All map projections distort the shapes of places.

  • A. All map projections have some kind of distortion.

500

Where a place is located in relation to another place.

  • A. absolute location.

  • B. distortion.

  • C. map projection.

  • D. relative location.

D. relative location.

500

What does a map scale show?


  • A. cardinal directions

  • B. intermediate directions 

  • C. distance

  • D. global grid

  • C. distance

500

When using coordinates, which global grid goes first?

  • A. latitude

  • B. longitude 
  • C. map
  • D. legend

  • A. latitude

500

Out of the five sports, which sport had the LEAST female participation?

  • A. Tennis

  • B. Football

  • C. Cricket 

  • D. Basketball

  • B. Football