Ch. 1 Study Sheet

Question 1

What are the imaginary lines that run north and south around the globe and come together at the poles?

Answer 1

Lines of Longitude (or meridians)

Question 2

What are the imaginary lines that run east and west around the glove but never meet one another?

Answer 2

Lines of Latitude

Question 3

What is a body of water surrounded by land?

Answer 3

Lake

Question 4

What is a narrow strip of land which connects land masses?

Answer 4

Isthmus

Question 5

What is a triangular shaped landform where a river fans out into smaller streams before reaching the ocean?

Answer 5

Delta

Question 6

What is the wide mouth of a river where the ocean tide meets the river current.

Answer 6

estuary

Question 7

What is a low place between mountains or hills?

Answer 7

Valley

Question 8

What is a broad, flat-topped highland that may have a gorge or canyon?

Answer 8

Plateau

Question 9

What is a geographical feature that is at least 2000 feet above sea level?

Answer 9

Mountain

Question 10

What is an artificial lake caused by a dammed river?

Answer 10

reservoir

Question 11

The equator passes through the mainland of which two continents? See a map.

Answer 11

South America and Africa

Question 12

What current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe has a warming effect on the climate of Western Europe?

Answer 12

Gulf Stream

Question 13

Which climate zones have a wide range of temperatures and experience seasons?

Answer 13

Temperate

Question 14

What percentage of the earths’ surface is covered by water?

Answer 14

70%

Question 15

What is the process of moving moisture from the oceans to the land and back to the oceans again?

Answer 15

The hydrologic cycle

Question 16

Which ocean is the warmest ocean?

Answer 16

Indian Ocean

Question 17

Which ocean is the largest ocean?

Answer 17

Pacific Ocean

Question 18

What kind of economy is when most of a country’s income is derived from agriculture?

Answer 18

Agrarian Economy

Question 19

What is the difference between “climate” and “weather”

Answer 19

Weather - the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth’s atmosphere in a localized area during a short period of time.

Climate - Patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region.

Question 20

What helps the reader to determine distances on a map?

Answer 20

Scale

Question 21

Which map projection accurately shows direction and shape by distorts area and size?

Answer 21

Mercator projection

Question 22

What landform has flat tops and extremely steep sides, and are usually round or oblong in shape?

Answer 22

Mesa

Question 23

What is the earth’s largest freshwater lake?

Answer 23

Lake Superior

Question 24

What landform has flat rolling lands with few changes in elevation?

Answer 24

Plains

Question 25

Be able to read a map:

• find a country by using coordinates.
• find landforms by directions

Answer 25

Practice

Question 26

Be able to label these places on a map:

• South America
• North America
• Antarctica
• Australia
• Asia
• Europe
• Africa
• Antarctic Circle
• Arctic Circle
• Arctic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Tropic of Cancer
• Prime Meridian
• Greenland
• International Date Line
• Mt. Everest
• Mt. Kilimanjaro
• Mt. McKinley
• Mt. Kilimanjaro

Answer 26

See maps in books

Question 27

What oceans border the continent of Asia? See a map

Answer 27

Arctic, Pacific, and Indian

Question 28

What oceans border the continent of North America? See a map

Answer 28

Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific

Question 29

What body of water is wast of Australia? See a map

Answer 29

Indian Ocean

Question 30

List the continents that touch the Arctic Circle. See a map

Answer 30

Asia, Europe, and North America