Geography Test 1 Review

Question 1

What is the disadvantage of a map compared to a globe?

Answer 1

A map distorts properties like distance.

Question 2

A planar projection map is most useful for

Answer 2

finding the shortest distance between two places particularly at the Poles.

Question 3

What is most accurately represented on a cylindrical projection map?

Answer 3

The Equator

Question 4

What map uses a mathematical formula used to represent the curved surface of the Earth on the flat surface

Answer 4

Cylindrical projection

Question 5

Which type of projection produces relatively accurate shapes on a map?

Answer 5

A cylindrical projection

Question 6

Earth is one of the four ____

Answer 6

terrestrial planets

Question 7

What best describes the movement of planets, asteroids, and comets?

Answer 7

That they revolve around the Sun.

Question 8

Why are gas planets sometimes referred to as “mini solar systems”?

Answer 8

They have moons.

Question 9

Why is “landform” a misleading term?

Answer 9

Landforms are not found in the hydrosphere

Question 10

Lakes and rivers are part of the ___

Answer 10

hydrosphere

Question 11

Pluto is considered to be a(n)

Answer 11

dwarf planet.

Question 12

Which natural landform joins two continents?

Answer 12

Isthmus of Panama.

Question 13

About 70% of the Earth’s surface is part of the ____?

Answer 13

hydrosphere.

Question 14

Which part of the biosphere provides oxygen?

Answer 14

Atmosphere.

Question 15

What is part of the lithosphere?

Answer 15

Ocean basins.

Question 16

Why do parts of the low latitude zone have warm to hot climates?

Answer 16

They receive direct rays from the sun year-round.

Question 17

What and When do the north pole and the South pole receive nearly continuously, but indirectly?

Answer 17

Sunlight; when either the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun.

Question 18

What explains how elevation influences climate?

Answer 18

The Earth’s atmosphere thins as altitude increases, making it colder.

Question 19

How are the causes of ocean currents similar to those of wind patterns?

Answer 19

Both are solely caused by the relationship between the elevation of a place and its temperature.

Question 20

What determines the direction of prevailing winds?

Answer 20

Latitude and the Earth’s movement

Question 21

What causes doldrums?

Answer 21

Horizontal movement of the trade winds subsides as warm air rises.

Question 22

In which region might you come across doldrums?

Answer 22

Near the Equator.

Question 23

Which of the following is an example of how precipitation can affect and be affected by its temperature?

Answer 23

A sudden cloudburst cools off a hot summer day.

Question 24

What describes El Nino?

Answer 24

An annual pattern of strong winds and severe flooding in Southeast Asia and Australia.