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100

What is the study of human and nonhuman features of Earth?

What is Geography?

100

What are North, East, South, West?

What are Cardinal Directions?

100

What is the distance north or south of the equator?

What is Latitude?

100

What Describes a place’s exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude?

What is absolute location?

100

What is an area a given space on the map corresponds to in the real world?

What is a scale?

200

What is height above sea level, on a map?

What is elevation?

200

What lie between the Cardinal Directions?

What are intermediate directions?

200

What is the 0 Degree Latitude Line?

What is the equator?

200

What is  location of a place relative to another place?

What is relative location?

200

What is loss of accuracy in size/position of objects on map?

What is distortion?

300

What are computer-based systems that use information linked to geographic locations?

What are Geographic information systems: (GIS)?

300

What is diagram of a compass showing direction?

What is a compass rose?

300

What is each half of the Earth?

What is hemisphere? 

300

What explains the symbols and shading on the map?

What is the key?

300

What are pictures of Earth’s surface taken from satellite in orbit?

What are Satellite images?

400

What do geographers study?

What is oceans, plant life, landforms, countries, and cities?

400

What run east to west?

What are Lines of Latitude?

400

What is the Distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian?

What is longitude?

400

What 

  • shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on the land?

What is a scale bar?

400

What are photographic images of Earth’s surface taken from air?

What is aerial photographs?

500

What is location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?

What are the five themes geographers study?

500

What are Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest?

What are Intermediate Directions?

500

What considers how people affect their environment, or their natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them?

What is human environment interaction?

500

What show physical, or natural, features?

What is a physical map?

500

What is ways to map Earth on flat surface ?

What are projections?