Geography

Question 1

What is physical geography?

Answer 1

Nature/ natural disasters.

Question 2

What is human geography?

Answer 2

People and their lifestyle; including where they live, how they develop and make a living.

Question 3

What is environmental geography?

Answer 3

How nature can impact people and how people can impact nature.

Question 4

What does physical geography include?

Answer 4

Volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, seas, erosion, weather, climate.

Question 5

What does environmental geography include?

Answer 5

Pollution, climate change, energy and deforestation.

Question 6

What does human geography include?

Answer 6

Population, migration, settlement, countries and cultures.

Question 7

What are the three types of geography?

Answer 7

Human, physical and environmental.

Question 8

What does a compass do?

Answer 8

Show the direction of something.

Question 9

What are the four main points of a compass?

Answer 9

North (N), South (S), East (E) and West (W).

Question 10

What are the four secondary points of a compass?

Answer 10

North East (NE), North West (NW), South East (SE) and South West (SW).

Question 11

What is the official name for a compass’ points?

Answer 11

A compass rose.

Question 12

What is a continent?

Answer 12

Continents are large continuous landmasses.

Question 13

What is a sea?

Answer 13

A large body of water (though not as big as an ocean) partially surrounded by land, separating the land and the ocean.

Question 14

What is an ocean?

Answer 14

A large body of open water.

Question 15

What is the difference between a sea and an ocean?

Answer 15

A sea is smaller than an ocean and is partially surrounded by land whereas an ocean is a massive open body of water.

Question 16

What is the largest continent?

Answer 16

Asia.

Question 17

What are the seven continents?

Answer 17

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Oceania.

Question 18

What are the five oceans?

Answer 18

Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian and Arctic.

Question 19

What is the largest ocean?

Answer 19

The Pacific Ocean.

Question 20

What direction do lines of latitude go in?

Answer 20

They are horizontal (flat).

Question 21

What direction do lines of longitude go in?

Answer 21

They are vertical.

Question 22

What are the three main lines of latitude?

Answer 22

The equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

Question 23

What are the two main lines of longitude?

Answer 23

The Greenwich meridian and the international date line.

Question 24

What are the other names for the international date line?

Answer 24

The anti-meridian or the 180º meridian.

Question 25

Why are lines of latitude and longitude important?

Answer 25

Because they can pinpoint an exact location for any place in the world.

Question 26

What are lines of latitude and longitude measured in?

Answer 26

Degrees.

Question 27

What does PO mean?

Answer 27

Post office.

Question 28

What does Sch mean?

Answer 28

School.

Question 29

What does FB mean?

Answer 29

Footbridge.

Question 30

What does a black cross mean?

Answer 30

A place of worship.

Question 31

What does a duck mean?

Answer 31

A nature reserve.

Question 32

What does a PC mean?

Answer 32

Public convenience (toilet).

Question 33

What does a red triangle mean?

Answer 33

A youth hostel.

Question 34

What does a telephone mean?

Answer 34

A telephone for public use.

Question 35

What do two swords mean?

Answer 35

A battlefield

Question 36

What does an ‘I’ with an orange circle round it mean?

Answer 36

It means an access information point.

Question 37

What does an ‘I’ with a blue square around it mean?

Answer 37

An information centre.

Question 38

Who invented the theory of continental drift?

Answer 38

Alfred Wegener.

Question 39

What did Alfred Wegener do for a job?

Answer 39

He was a meteorologist.

Question 40

What does a meteorologist study?
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Answer 40

Weather.

Question 41

What sort of person is a geologist?

Answer 41

Someone who studies rocks and land.

Question 42

What was the main point of continental drift?

Answer 42

That the continents move and separate over time.