Lesson 1

Question 1

What do Geographers look at the world at three levels?

Answer 1

Local level
Regional level
Global level

Question 2

Blank looks to find relationships among people who live far apart.

Answer 2

Global level

Question 3

What does geographers tools include?

Answer 3

Map, globes, satellite images, notebooks, tape recorders.

Question 4

True or false. Showing round earth on a flat maps will distort some details.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What does place mean?

Answer 5

Describes features that make a site unique.

Question 6

Landscape

Answer 6

Features that define the area and make it different from other places.

Question 7

Region

Answer 7

A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding area’s.

Question 8

What is the 2 most fields on geography?

Answer 8

Physical geography

Human geography

Question 9

Cartography

Answer 9

Science of making maps.

Question 10

Earth axis

Answer 10

And imaginary rod through north and south poles.

Question 11

Blank result From earths rotation.

Answer 11

Night and day

Question 12

Revolution

Answer 12

Earths trip around the sun.

Question 13

What does the earths tilt do?

Answer 13

Creates the change in season.

Question 14

True or false. The northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Latitude

Answer 15

The distance north or south of the equator.

Question 16

The main process of the water cycle is?

Answer 16

Evaporation and precipitation

Question 17

Droughts

Answer 17

A long periods of lower than normal precipitation.

Question 18

What is the theory of continental draft?

Answer 18

Continentals used to be united in one single supercontinent.

Question 19

What are two continental plates that seem to have collided?

Answer 19

Eurasian plate and India plate

Question 20

True or false. Earthquakes often occur when two plates slide past each other.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

What does Earth glaciers can cause?

Answer 21

Erosion

Question 22

Front

Answer 22

A place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.

Question 23

Blank can be of any size and can occur when ever air, water and soil, support life.

Answer 23

Ecosystems

Question 24

Blank identify climates by looking at temperature, precipitation, and native Plant live.

Answer 24

Geographers

Question 25

Which type of climate can occur at any latitude?

Answer 25

Highland

Question 26

Monsoons

Answer 26

Seasonal environments

Question 27

Habitat

Answer 27

Place where a plant or animal lives

Question 28

What can environment changes do?

Answer 28

It can often destroy habits.

Question 29

Natural resource

Answer 29

Any materials in nature that people use and value.

Question 30

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

Answer 30

A forest

Question 31

What is a Ethnic group?

Answer 31

A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry.

Question 32

Cultural diffusion

Answer 32

The spread of culture traits from one religion to another.

Question 33

Blank is a measure of the number of people living in an area.

Answer 33

Population density

Question 34

What is a migration?

Answer 34

A progress of moving from one place to another.

Question 35

Blank A form of government in which the people elect leaders and ruled by Majority.

Answer 35

Democracy

Question 36

Monarchy

Answer 36

Ruled directly by a queen or king

Question 37

What is a secondary industry?

Answer 37

Produce something new to using Ramen Cheerios from primary interest.

Question 38

True or false. Geographers use economic indicators such as per capita gross domestic product, level of industrialization, and quality of life to judge a country’s development.

Answer 38

True