dg week 5 quiz Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is the capital of the country who’s neighbors are Columbia, Brazil, and Guyana?
Caracas
What is the difference between a plateau and a plain?
A plateau is a flat land that is raised above the ground. A plain is a plat, low-lying area
What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
An absolute location is a precise point on Earth or another defined space. A relative location describes where something else is by using another familiar feature as a reference point.
Name the 7 countries that make up Central America.
Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua
If it is winter in Poland, what season is it in Zimbabwe? Why?
Summer because they are in opposite hemispheres.
What is the capital of the country through which 40 degrees N and 20 degrees E pass?
Tirane
Into how many degrees of longitude is the Earth divided?
360 degrees
If it is dawn in the Eastern United States, is the western united states in darkness? Why or why not?
Yes because the Earth rotates west to east.
What country has the largest land area in the eastern hemispheres?
Russia
Which nation is farther north, Egypt or Greece?
Greece
Bogota is to Columbia as _______ is to India.
New Delhi
Tropical rain forests grow in hot areas near the equator that have no dry season. Here would you be likely to find such a forest, in Brazil or Egypt?
Brazil
What is the line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England called?
0 degrees or Prime Meridian
Kabul is the country that borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Pakistan. What is this country’s name?
Afganistan
When you look for city populations in an almanac, you may see figures for metropolitan areas. What is a metropolitan area?
A large city with communities around it.
Tunis is the capital of which country?
Tunisia
Which hemisphere has the most land area, the eastern or western?
Eastern
A thermometer is to air temperature as a _______ is to air pressure.
Barometer
What is the capital of the country with the largest land area in the Western Hemisphere?
Ottawa
Name the six countries in Africa that have coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and lie on or in between 20 degrees N and 10 degrees N.
Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Sierra Leone.
The largest sea in the world is south of Cuba, what is it?
Caribbean Sea
How many degrees are there between the equator and the southern tip of Greenland?
60 degrees
Which country in southern Africa, with Mozambique and South Africa on its eastern and southern border respectively, used to be called Rhodesia?
Zimbabwe
Wind, or the movement of air, is an important part of weather. A weather vane measures the direction of wind. What instrument measures the speed of wind?
Anamometer
