World Geo. Test
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| what do geographers study | people and their environment
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| what is cartography | the study of maps and map making
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| examples of political regions | borders cities, countries, states
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| how is human and physical geo. related | interaction b/w people and their environment
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| region | area w/ one or more common features that makes it different from others (cities, states, continents)
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| examples of funtional region | malss, transit systems, cities
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| a place can be located on a globe by the (blank) of lines of long. and lat. | intersection
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| worlds largest geographical feature | pacific ocean
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| prime meridian | seperates the globe in to longitudinal lines
starts at 0 degrees
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| maps | flat representations of all or part of earths surface
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| what do all maps have in common | distortion
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| shortest route b/w any two paces on earth | great circle route
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| what is the distance scale on a map used for | to find exact distance from one place to another
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| maps drawn before 1492 were missing what | continents or oceans
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| population maps | population distribution in different places in a region
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| topography | elevation or shapes of land
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| elevation maps | show the different elevations in an area
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| what map shows true area size but distorts shapes | flat plane
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| contour map | connects points of equal elevation above or below sea level
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| what theme of geo. might a cartographer be interested in | location
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| largest employer of geographers | USGS
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| examples of physical geo. | soils, vegetation, rainfall
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| what are degrees subdivided into | minutes
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| worlds largest island | greenland
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| what type of map would landmasses near the pole show distortion | cylindrical
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