2. A Geographer’s Tools Jeopardy LocationWorld Map Features Map Skills Definitions Map Projections Five Themes of Geography $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 FinalDouble #1Double #2Double #3

3. Answer Located at 0 degrees N/S latitude.

4. Question Where is the equator?

5. Answer Horizontal lines that measure north or south of the equator.

6. Question What are latitude lines?

7. Answer Vertical lines that measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.

8. Question What are longitude lines?

9. Answer North, South, East and West are called this.

10. Question What are the cardinal directions?

11. Answer Another name for both longitude and latitude lines.

12. Question What are meridians (longitude) and parallels (latitude)?

13. Answer Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern

14. Question What are the five major oceans of the world?

15. Answer This continent is located in all four hemispheres.

16. Question Where is Africa located? Go to DOUBLE JEOPARDY #2

17. Answer Located at 0 degrees W/E, it marks the difference between the western and eastern hemispheres.

18. Question What is the Prime Meridian?

19. Answer This latitude line is the southern boundary of the tropics.

20. Question What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

21. Answer The only two continents located entirely in the southern hemisphere.

22. Question Where are Australia and Antarctica located?

23. Answer The tool on a map used to measure real world distances.

24. Question What is a scale?

25. Answer This part of map explains symbols and features of the map.

26. Question What is a legend or key? Go to DOUBLE JEOPARDY #1

27. Answer This type of map shows landforms and water features

28. Question What is a physical map?

29. Answer This type of map shows height of the land above sea level.

30. Question What is a relief (elevation) map?

31. Answer This is the symbol for a city and the symbol for a capital of a state/nation.

32. Question What is a solid dot for a city and a star for a capital?

33. Answer When a map is stretched or pulled and therefore areas of the map are bigger or smaller than their actual size/shape.

34. Question What is distortion?

35. Answer This type of map shows a lot of distortion but is good for sea navigation because the lines of latitude and longitude are straight.

36. Question What is a Mercator projection map?

37. Answer Geographer’s prefer this tool because it shows us how the Earth actually looks and how it is shaped.

38. Question What is a globe?

39. Answer This type of projection is what the world looks like if you cut and flatten the globe.

40. Question What is the Goode’s Interrupted Projection? Go to DOUBLE JEOPARDY #3

41. Answer Maps show the most distortion on these two parts of the maps (one in the south and one in the north).

42. Question What are the poles?

43. Answer This theme of geography explains why we have certain endangered species and what humans do to help them.

44. Question What is Human/Environment Interaction?

45. Answer This theme explains exactly where something is located by giving the latitude and longitude coordinates.

46. Question What is Absolute Location?

47. Answer This theme explains how people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place.

48. Question What is Movement?

49. Answer This theme of geography identifies the physical and/or man-made characteristics that make one place different, or unique, from every other place. The Great Rift Valley or the Grand Canyon are examples.

50. Question What is Place?

51. Answer Areas that share at least one common feature like climate or history. Geographers divide the world into areas based on language, culture, geographic/physical, or political characteristics in order to study their similarities.

52. Answer What are Regions?

53. Final Jeopardy List the seven continents. *You will get double the points you wager if you spell them all correctly Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America

54. Double Jeopardy #1 Explain one reason why a map may be more helpful than a globe. -It’s more portable; easy to carry around -Easier to find latitude/longitude coordinates -Can zoom in and out (more detail) -Variety of maps

55. Double Jeopardy #2 What type of map separates countries and states by government/state boundaries? -Political Maps

56. Double Jeopardy #3 What is the exact latitude coordinate of the Tropic of Cancer? ( _____ degrees _____ ) 23.5 degrees North

57. A Geographer’s Tools Jeopardy Rules 1.You will be playing in teams that have already been randomly chosen. You must cooperate in your teams in order to participate in today’s game. 2.Each person in the group will appoint one “spokesperson”. This person will do all the talking for the group, but everyone will still participate by telling this person what to say. This person will be determined at the beginning of the game. 3.You will be given an answer to a question and must come up with the question in order to win that round. (example)example 4.No answers will be accepted that are shouted out. If a team shouts out more than two times, that team will be disqualified and will observe the game silently. 5.The order of teams will be chosen by selecting a number. 6.You will keep score of the hypothetical “money” you earn and you will wager during the Final Jeopardy question. If you get a question wrong, you will lose that amount. 7. More importantly, have fun and pay attention to these questions… you will see them on the test! Good Luck!!

58. Example Answer: Explaining where a place is relative to another place.

59. Example What is relative location? Rules