 What is the study of the Earth’s surface and the process that shapes it, the connection between places, and the complex relationship between people and their environment?

 Geography

 What 2 Hemispheres does the Equator cut the Earth into?

 What is the name of the most important line of longitude?

 What is the name of a person who makes and creates Maps?

Cartographer

 When the Earth is cut in half, what is it called?

 What is the name of the lines that run north and south but measure west and east?

Longitude

 What part of the Map contains symbols and explains what those symbols mean?

 How many themes of Geography are there?

 What is the name of the most important line of latitude?

Equator

 What is name of the lines that run west and east but measure north and south?

 The Prime Meridian cuts the Earth into what 2 hemispheres?

 Which one of the 5 themes deals with a part of the Earth that shares one or more Characteristics?

 Regions

 What line of latitude is found at 23.5 ºN?

 Tropic of Cancer at 23.5ºN

 What is the Exact position of a place on the Earth?

 Absolute Location

 What part of the Map compares the distance on a map to the actual distance on the Earth?

 What is the name of the other half of the Prime Meridian?

180 th Meridian

 What are the Characteristics of a Place?

Human & Physical Characteristics

 What route do Navigators use to find the shortest, fastest, and closest distance between 2 places?

 Great Circle Route

 North America is located in which 2 Hemispheres?

 Northern & Western Hemispheres

 What type of map uses color to display land elevations?

 Physical & Topographic

 What happens to the round Earth when it is put on a flat surface?

 Distortion – Stretching and Shrinking so it fits

 What Map is most commonly used by Navigator’s?

 Mercator Map

 What type of Map is most commonly used in this classroom?

 Robinson Map

 What is the systematic way of locating places using latitude and longitude lines? Absolute location.

 Grid System

 Who created the landforms and physical features of the Earth?

 Nature

 What are the 4 major landforms?

 Mountains  Hills  Plateaus  Plains

 What are the 4 Cardinal Directions?

 What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?

 What is the approximate size of the Earth?

 24,000 miles round

 What does the Earth orbit around and how many days does it take?

 The Sun & 365 days