Notes For Test Flashcards
What is the fifth planet ?
Jupiter
What is the study of the earth
Geography
What is the third planet away from the sun
Uranus
What is our sun
A star
What is the name of our solar system ?
The Milky Way
What do we call the imaginary lines that divides the northern and Southern Hemispheres ?
Equator
The North Pole is
90 degrees latitude
The prime Merdian runs through
Eastern and western hemispheres
The country the prime Merdian runs through is
England
180 degrees on the other side of the earth has a name
International date line
The five themes of geography
1) relation ship
2) Location
3) place
4) Region
5) Movement
Which one of the themes geography would be absolute or relative ?
Location
We use longitude and latitude lines
To find the Absolute location of the place .
Push Pull theory
Movement
What is another name for longitude and latitude lines
Parallels
What is another name for longitude lines
Meridians
What is the distance of latitude lines and longitude lines
69 miles
The USA is in what hemispheres
North and Western Hemisphere
What line is the sun over when the summer equinoxes ?
Tropic of Cancer
How much time does it take for the earths rotation
24 hours
How much does it take for the earth to revolve around the sun
365 1/4 days
Name all the cardinal directions
North
South
East
West
All flat maps haves
Distortion and Key .
Who was the guy that made the first flat map
Gerhardus Mercator
Give an example of an distortion on a map
Iceland is smaller than Australia . And really Australia is bigger than Iceland .
The solarsystem planets
Pluto Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter Ceres Mars Earth Venus Mercury Sun
