2.  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?

3.  Geography

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

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

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

9. Cartographer

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

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

13. Longitude

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

16.  How many themes of Geography are there?

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

19. Equator

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

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

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

25.  Regions

26.  What line of latitude is found at 23.5 ºN?

27.  Tropic of Cancer at 23.5ºN

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

29.  Absolute Location

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

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

33. 180 th Meridian

34.  What are the Characteristics of a Place?

35. Human & Physical Characteristics

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

37.  Great Circle Route

38.  North America is located in which 2 Hemispheres?

39.  Northern & Western Hemispheres

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

41.  Physical & Topographic

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

43.  Distortion – Stretching and Shrinking so it fits

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

45.  Mercator Map

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

47.  Robinson Map

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

49.  Grid System

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

51.  Nature

52.  What are the 4 major landforms?

53.  Mountains  Hills  Plateaus  Plains

54.  What are the 4 Cardinal Directions?

56.  What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?

58.  What is the approximate size of the Earth?

59.  24,000 miles round

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

61.  The Sun & 365 days