Test 1

Question 1

Shows the boundaries between countries and states

Answer 1

Political map

Question 2

Where does Geography come from?

Answer 2

The Greek work Geographia and means earth description

Question 3

Share the five themes of geography?

Answer 3

Location, place, movement, region, human environment/interactions

Question 4

What is an exact point where longitude and latitude meet?

Answer 4

Absolute location

Question 5

One place relation to another (between here and Starkville)

Answer 5

Relative location

Question 6

What is physical geography?

Answer 6

Focuses on earths physical features.

Question 7

What is Human geography?

Answer 7

Focuses on human activities and there relationship with the cultural and physical environment

Question 8

How far away is earth from the sun and the diameter at the equator?

Answer 8

93 million miles

8,000 miles

Question 9

The earth is about _____% water with oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.what does that make up?

Answer 9

70%

And the hydrosphere

Question 10

About ____% is land and known as what? (Earths crust)

Answer 10

30%

lithosphere

Question 11

What is the highest point in earth?

Answer 11

Mt. Everest in Asia at 29,028 ft

Question 12

What is the lowest place on earth?

Answer 12

The Dead Sea at 1,312 feet below sea level

Question 13

What are the seven continents?

Answer 13

North America, South America, Australia, Antartica , Asia, Europe, Africa.

Question 14

What are the five oceans?

Answer 14

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, southern, arctic

Question 15

How much do the plates move a year?

Answer 15

4 inches

Question 16

What are internal forces?

Answer 16

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis… All caused by plates shifts.

Question 17

What are external forces?

Answer 17

weathering (physical-rocks break, and chemical-element combine, rust) and erosion (from wind glaciers, and water)

Question 18

Know the water cycle

Answer 18

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Question 19

What is the mantle?

Answer 19

thick rock such as silicon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, and magnesium

Question 20

Shows the topography of earths features

Answer 20

Physical map

Question 21

What is the difference between climate and weather?

Answer 21

Weather is the condition of the atmosphere in one place for a period of time.

Climate is the term for the weather patterns that an area typical experiments are you long period of time

Question 22

The _______ __ _________ is located in the northern hemisphere at 23.5 degrees N.

Answer 22

Tropic of Cancer

Question 23

The _________ __ _____________ is located in the Southern Hemisphere at 23.5 degrees S.

Answer 23

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 24

What is the date for the spring equinox?

Answer 24

March 21

Question 25

What date marks winter?

Answer 25

Dec 22

Question 26

What date marks the beginning of fall

Answer 26

September 23

Question 27

What date marks the summer solstice?

Answer 27

June 21

Question 28

The north and the south pole are always opposite. The sound is not set in the north pole from ________________________ basically, thus, continues day Light occurs in the South Pole from _____________________. What is this known as? _____________ is there a place in the US affected by this?

Answer 28

March 20- September 23 September 23- March 20 Midnight Sun Alaska

Question 29

What are prevailing winds?

Answer 29

Winds that blow in a constant pattern

Question 30

What is El Niño?

Answer 30

Periodic changing the ocean currents and water temperature in the mid Pacific

Question 31

What do geographers do?

Answer 31

They make observations of earth and its climate; etc; make maps (cartographers); interview people to understand the human/environment interaction; create statistics to define regions and the like; use computers to make effective maps, charts, and such.

Question 32

What are doldrums?

Answer 32

They are windless

Question 33

What are coriolos effect?

Answer 33

The ocean currents flow counter clock wise in the Southern Hemisphere