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Lets RollUnit 1
Question 1
What is the study of the Earth’s surface and the process that shapes it, the connection between places, and the complex relationship between people and their environment?
Answer
Geography
Question 2
What 2 Hemispheres does the Equator cut the Earth into?
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Question 3
What is the name of the most important line of longitude?
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Question 4
What is the name of a person who makes and creates Maps?
Answer
Cartographer
Question 5
When the Earth is cut in half, what is it called?
Answer
Question 6
What is the name of the lines that run north and south but measure west and east?
Answer
Longitude
Question 7
What part of the Map contains symbols and explains what those symbols mean?
Answer
Question 8
How many themes of Geography are there?
Answer
Question 9
What is the name of the most important line of latitude?
Answer
Equator
Question 10
What is name of the lines that run west and east but measure north and south?
Answer
Question 11
The Prime Meridian cuts the Earth into what 2 hemispheres?
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Question 12
Which one of the 5 themes deals with a part of the Earth that shares one or more Characteristics?
Answer
Regions
Question 13
What line of latitude is found at 23.5 ºN?
Answer Tropic of Cancer at 23.5ºN
Question 14
What is the Exact position of a place on the Earth?
Answer
Absolute Location
Question 15
What part of the Map compares the distance on a map to the actual distance on the Earth?
Answers
Question 16
What is the name of the other half of the Prime Meridian?
Answer
180th Meridian
Question 17
What are the Characteristics of a Place?
Answer
Human & Physical Characteristics
Question 18
What route do Navigators use to find the shortest, fastest, and closest distance between 2 places?
Answer
Great Circle Route
Questions 19
North America is located in which 2 Hemispheres?
Answer
Northern & Western Hemispheres
Question 20
What type of map uses color to display land elevations?
Answer
Physical & Topographic
Question 21
What happens to the round Earth when it is put on a flat surface?
Answer
Distortion – Stretching and Shrinking so it fits
Question 22
What Map is most commonly used by Navigator’s?
Answer
Mercator Map
Question 23
What type of Map is most commonly used in this classroom?
Answer
Robinson Map
Question 24
What is the systematic way of locating places using latitude and longitude lines? Absolute location.
Answer
Grid System
Question 25
Who created the landforms and physical features of the Earth?
Answer
Nature
Question 26
What are the 4 major landforms?
Answer
Mountains
Hills Plateaus Plains
Question 27
What are the 4 Cardinal Directions?
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Question 28
What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?
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Question 29
What is the approximate size of the Earth?
Answer
24,000 miles round
Question 30
What does the Earth orbit around and how many days does it take?
Answer
The Sun & 365 days