Geographers
Visuals
Locations
Types of Maps
Tools
100
This is the precise point where a place is located on Earth.
What is absolute location?
100
A place on a map compared to another.
What is relative location?
100
The imaginary line that runs at 0 degrees longitude from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
Where symbols on a map are located.
What is a legend or key?
100
GPS, Global Positioning System devices (phone, computer, etc) receive signals from ______ satellites in order to calculate the exact location on Earth.
What is 4?
200
This usually describes the area shown on a map and it also identifies the map's main topic.
What is a title?
200
What geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth.
What is longitude and latitude or GPS (Global Positioning System)?
200
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The Northern and Southern Hemsipheres are divided by which?
a. Prime Meridian b. Tropic of Cancer
c. International Date Line d. Equator
What is the Equator?
200
Flows down from mountains and makes its way to the sea.
What is a river?
300
Imaginary lines that run east and west around the globe.
What are lines of latitude?
300
What do geographers study?
a. people, places, and maps
b. envioronments, natural surroundings, and people
c. places, environments, and people
d. places, people, and animals
What are places, environments, and people?
300
The type of map that shows mountains and rivers.
a. relief map b. physical map
c. political map d. boundary map
What is a physical map?
300
Which is a list of human features?
a. climate, vegetation, population
b. population, land use, economic activity
c. population, economy, and climate
d. geography, spatial, and location
What is population, land use, and economic activity?
300
Landforms, climate, and resources are included in which of the 5 Themes of Geography?
a. Place b. human interaction
c. movement d. environment
What is environment?
400
This is what tells you how the distances on the map compare to the actual distances on Earth.
What is scale?
400
Name the 3 visuals geographers use.
What is Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams?
400
An area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
400
This group studies how places change over time.
a. cartographer b. geographer
c. scientist d. geologist
Who are geographers?
400
Shows directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
500
Resources, climate, and landforms are included in the which theme of geography?
a. region b. landforms
c. environment d. human interaction
What is human interaction?
500
Which of these is incorrect?
a. Globes are better than maps because they are shaped like Earth.
b. Globes show accurate distances and direction between places on Earth.
c. Globes can be cut and flattened out to make a map without having to distort the continents or oceans.
d.Maps can show more detail than globes.
c. Globes can be cut and flattened out to make a map without having to distort the continents or oceans.
500
Name the 7 continents
North America Africa
South America Australia
Europe Antarctica
Asia
500
Name this image.
What is a compass rose?
500
The Earth can be divided into four parts or hemispheres:
Complete the list
1) Northern Hemisphere 2) __________________
3) ________________ 4) Western Hemisphere
What is Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere?