Unit 1 Vocabulary - Geography

Test Description: Culture, Geography, Economy, Government

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Tells you where it is.

2) What is it like when you get there?

3) What do the people do to the environment? What does the environment do for the people?

4) People and Ideas get around

5) What do locations have in common? Climate, Religion, Language, Education, States, Territories, Borders of the Nation

6) a diagram on a map that shows directions such as north, south, east, and west.

7) one of the seven largest areas of land on Earth.

8) 0° latitude and divides the globe into the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere

9) one half of a sphere.

10) box or other display on a map that explains the meaning of the symbols used on the map

11) an element of a map that shows how a unit of distance on the map (such as an inch) relates to actual distance on the surface of Earth

12) location east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured by imaginary lines (meridians) numbered in degrees east or west

13) location north or south of the Equator, measured by imaginary lines (parallels) numbered in degrees north or south

14) 0° longitude, from which all other degrees of longitude are measured. Line of the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole

15) The parallel of latitude that is 66 1/2 degrees north of the equator.

16) The parallel of latitude that is 23 1/2 degrees north of th equator and is the northner most latitude reached by the overhead sun.

17) A study of the earth in all its variety – land, water, plants, and animals

18) one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents

19) a network of horizontal and perpendicular lines (as for locating points on a map by means of coordinates)

20) the parallel of latitude that is 23 1/2 degrees north of the equator and is the northern most latitude reached by the overhead sun


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