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Chapter 1 TEST SS
Test on Tuesday 11/10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do geographers use to organize information about Earth and its people? | Geographers use the 5 themes |
| What is the sentence you were taught to help remember the 5 themes of geography? | Pearl (Place) River (Region) Helps (Human-Environment Interaction) Me (Movement) Learn (Location) |
| What are the 5 themes? | location, regions, place, movement, human-environment interactions |
| Which theme do geographers use to describe the physical and human features at a specific location? | The theme of Place |
| Which theme is being used when we learn about an Earthquake that occurred in Japan? | Regions |
| Why do Geographers use the theme of regions? | to group places that have something in common |
| The earth is divided into halves | hemispheres |
| Lines of ______ measure distances east or west. | longitude |
| If someone told you that Canberra, Australia was located at 150°E, would they have given you an absolute location? | No. They need to also give the line of latitude. |
| When writing coordinates of a place, what comes first? | latitude |
| What is the difference between absolute location and relative location? | Absolute location gives an exact position of a place on Earth, while Relative location gives a general idea by using terms such as “north of”, “around the corner from”, 30 miles west of” |
| Northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest are all _____ directions. | intermediate directions |
| Which theme is being used to describe how people in Pearl River commute to work each day? | Movement |
| Which theme does the following statement fall into: Pearl River built a commuter parking lot near the train station a few years ago to accommodate more people. | Human-Environment interaction |
| To determine how far New York City is from Philadelphia, what instrument would you refer to? | scale |
| Why do all maps have some degree of distortion? | the Earth round and a map flat. |
| What 3 things do mapmakers rely on to make maps? | ground surveys, satellite images and aerial photos |
| Which map projection was created to help sailors plan trips around the globe? | The Mercator Projection |
| The most accurate way to represent Earth’s surface is with a _________. | globe |
| Of the 3 map projections we learned about (Mercator, Equal-Area, Robinson), which one is most accurate over-all? | The Robinson Projection |
| If you wanted to know the subject of a map, what would you refer to? | Title |
| Part of a map explains the symbols or shadings of a map | key or legend |
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JoeyPal
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