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?

Answer

Question 3

What is the name of the most important line of longitude?

Answer

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?

Answer

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?

Answer

Question 28

What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?

Answer

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