Geography Basics & Themes
Question: What is the study of Earth’s people, places, and environments?
Answer: Geography
Question: What map feature tells what the map is about?
Answer: The title
Question: What imaginary line is located at 0° latitude?
Answer: The Equator
Question: What was the name of the ancient supercontinent?
Answer: Pangaea
Question: What process breaks rock into smaller pieces?
Answer: Weathering
Question: Which branch of geography studies mountains, rivers, climates, and other natural features?
Answer: Physical geography
Question: What map feature shows north, south, east, and west?
Answer: The compass rose
Question: What imaginary line is located at 0° longitude?
Answer: The Prime Meridian
Question: What is a large piece of Earth’s outer shell called?
Answer: A tectonic plate
Question: What process moves weathered material from one place to another?
Answer: Erosion
Question: Which theme of geography answers the question, “Where is it?”
Answer: Location
Question: What map feature explains the symbols and colors used on a map?
Answer: The legend or key
Question: The Equator divides Earth into which two hemispheres?
Answer: The Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Question: At which type of boundary do plates move away from each other?
Answer: A divergent boundary
Question: What process drops or settles transported sediment?
Answer: Deposition
Question: What are the two ways location can be described?
Answer: Absolute location and relative location
Question: Which type of map shows countries, states, borders, and capital cities?
Answer: A political map
Question: Does latitude measure distance north and south or east and west?
Answer: North and south of the Equator
Question: How do tectonic plates move at a transform boundary?
Answer: They slide past each other.
Question: Which kind of weathering breaks rock without changing what the rock is made of?
Answer: Mechanical weathering
Question: Name the three ways people interact with their environment.
Answer: They adapt to, modify, and depend on the environment.
Question: Which map feature allows you to calculate the real-world distance between two places?
Answer: The map scale
Question: A location is at 30° S, 120° E. In which two hemispheres is it located?
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Answer: The Southern and Eastern Hemispheres
Question: What type of boundary can create mountain ranges when two continental plates collide?
Answer: A convergent boundary
Question: Put these processes in their usual order: erosion, deposition, and weathering.
Answer: Weathering, erosion, and deposition.