Introduction To Geography

Question 1

What is the study of the earth?

Answer 1

Geography

Question 2

What is the idea that the earth and mankind developed by “accident” and evolved toward a better state over billions of years?

Answer 2

Evolution

Question 3

What is the infallible word of God?

Answer 3

The Bible

Question 4

What are large bodies of land surrounded or nearly surrounded by water?

Answer 4

Continents

Question 5

Name the 7 continents in order, from largest to smallest.

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is the shape and elevation of the land?

Answer 6

Topography

Question 7

What are the largest bodies of water called?

Answer 7

Oceans

Question 8

What is the largest and deepest ocean called?

Answer 8

The Pacific Ocean

Question 9

What is the deepest point on earth?

Answer 9

The Mariana Trench

Question 10

What is a large canyon on the Pacific Ocean floor?

Answer 10

The Challenger Deep

Question 11

What is the second largest ocean?

Answer 11

The Atlantic Ocean

Question 12

What is the second smallest and the warmest ocean?

Answer 12

The Indian Ocean

Question 13

What is the smallest and coldest ocean?

Answer 13

The Arctic Ocean

Question 14

What are the smaller extensions and branches of the oceans?

Answer 14

Seas and Gulfs

Question 15

What are the lines that run east and west around the globe?

Answer 15

The Parallels of Latitude

Question 16

What is the parallel of latitude that encircles the earth halfway between the North and South Poles?

Answer 16

The equator

Question 17

What are the two equal sides of the earth called?

Answer 17

The Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

Question 18

What are the four parallels of latitude?

Answer 18

Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, the Arctic Circle, and the Antarctic Circle

Question 19

What are the verticals of longitude called?

Answer 19

Meridians

Question 20

What is the meridian located at 180 degrees longitude?

Answer 20

The prime meridian

Question 21

What hemispheres do the prime meridian separate the world into?

Answer 21

Eastern and Western Hemispheres

Question 22

What the meridian located on the opposite side of the world of the prime meridian?

Answer 22

The International Dateline

Question 23

What is the exact point where the parallel and the meridian intersect at that location?

Answer 23

Coordinates

Question 24

What are the most prominent landscape figures on the earth?

Answer 24

Mountains

Question 25

What involves the changes that that take place in the lower atmosphere?

Answer 25

Weather

Question 26

What involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region?

Answer 26

Climate

Question 27

What divisions of the earth better describe climates around the world?

Answer 27

Climate zones

Question 28

What climate zone is warm all year?

Answer 28

Torrid zone

Question 29

What climate zone has wide ranges of temperatures?

Answer 29

Temperate zone

Question 30

What winds that blow from the southeast did merchants name because they could use the winds to sail from Europe?

Answer 30

Trade winds

Question 31

What were the trade winds that sailors used to reach the Americas?

Answer 31

Prevailing westerlies

Question 32

What are large storms or cyclones?

Answer 32

Hurricanes

Question 33

What is the release of water from the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow, or sleet?

Answer 33

Precipitation

Question 34

What is the height above sea level?

Answer 34

Elevation

Question 35

What German climatologist introduced a system of climatic classification?

Answer 35

Wladimir Köppen

Question 36

What climates experience high temperatures and precipitation?

Answer 36

Tropical climates

Question 37

What is the Arabic word for season?

Answer 37

Monsoon

Question 38

What climates receive little to no precipitation?

Answer 38

Dry climates

Question 39

What involves the changes that that take place in the lower atmosphere?

Answer 39

Weather

Question 40

What involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region?

Answer 40

Climate

Question 41

What divisions of the earth better describe climates around the world?

Answer 41

Climate zones

Question 42

What climate zone is warm all year?

Answer 42

Torrid zone

Question 43

What climate zone has wide ranges of temperatures?

Answer 43

Temperate zone

Question 44

What winds that blow from the southeast did merchants name because they could use the winds to sail from Europe?

Answer 44

Trade winds

Question 45

What were the trade winds that sailors used to reach the Americas?

Answer 45

Prevailing westerlies

Question 46

What are large storms or cyclones?

Answer 46

Hurricanes

Question 47

What renewable resource is renewed by the hydrologic cycle?

Answer 47

Water

Question 48

What renewable resource is renewed by the weathering of rocks and by decomposing plant life?

Answer 48

Soil

Question 49

What renewable resource is renewed by plants letting out oxygen?

Answer 49

Air

Question 50

What is the renewable resource provide for renewed growth?

Answer 50

Trees

Question 51

What is the name for water that is used to generate energy?

Answer 51

Waterpower

Question 52

What is the name for energy derived from the heat of the earth's interior?

Answer 52

Geothermal energy

Question 53

What force is used to create energy through mills?

Answer 53

Wind

Question 54

What nonrenewable resource is important for industry?

Answer 54

Iron

Question 55

What nonrenewable resource is used to form aluminum?

Answer 55

Bauxite