.s.s. chap 1

Question 1

What are the 7 continents?

Answer 1

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica and Austrailia

Question 2

What are the 5 oceans?

Answer 2

Pacific, Indian, Antarctic, Arctic and Atlantic

Question 3

What is Geography?

Answer 3

The study of earth and its people.

Question 4

How long is a decade?

Answer 4

10 years

Question 5

what is a century?

Answer 5

100 years

Question 6

What is a millennium?

Answer 6

1000 years

Question 7

What is a globe?

Answer 7

A round model of the earth that shows its shape, lands and directions as they truly relate to one another.

Question 8

What is a map?

Answer 8

A flat drawing of all or part of earths surface.

Question 9

Name the 4 types of map projections.

Answer 9

Goodes Interrupted Equal-Area Projection
Robinson Projection
Mercator Projection
Winkel Tripel Projection

Question 10

Which imaginary lines run east to west around the globe?

Answer 10

Latitude

Question 11

Which imaginary lines run north to south around the globe?

Answer 11

longitude

Question 12

What do we call the line that divides the earth into the western and eastern hemispheres?

Answer 12

Prime Meridian

Question 13

What do we call the line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?

Answer 13

Equator

Question 14

The North Pole is located at______degrees north.

Answer 14

90

Question 15

The South Pole is located at ______degrees south.

Answer 15

90

Question 16

Everything east of the Prime Meridian is______degrees, and west of the Prime Meridian is_______degrees. Which makes the earth a full____-degrees.

Answer 16

180,180,360

Question 17

Name the 7 parts of a map

Answer 17

Title, Key, Scale Bar, Compass Rose, Cities, Capitals and Boundary Lines

Question 18

Name the inner planets

Answer 18

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Question 19

Name the outer planets

Answer 19

Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus and Neptune

Question 20

How do the inner and outer planets differ?

Answer 20

The outer planets are larger and composed mostly or entirely of gases

Question 21

Define Solar Sysyem

Answer 21

The earth, seven other major planets,and thousands of smaller bodies that revolve around the sun.

Question 22

What is axis?

Answer 22

An imaginary line that passes through the center of the earth from the North Pole to South Pole.

Question 23

How long does it take for the earth to complete a rotation?

Answer 23

24 hours

Question 24

It takes the earth how long to revolve around the sun?

Answer 24

365 1/4 days

Question 25

Explain why we have a leap year.

Answer 25

Every four years the extra fourths of a day are combined and added to the calendar as Feb. 29th.

Question 26

Define Atmosphere

Answer 26

The layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds earth.

Question 27

The earth is tilted_______degrees on its axis.

Answer 27

23 1/2

Question 28

Why do we have season

Answer 28

The tilt of the earth

Question 29

Which rays bring warmth?

Answer 29

direct

Question 30

Describe summer solstice.

Answer 30

In Northern Hemisphere this day has the most hours of sunlight

Question 31

Describe winter solstice.

Answer 31

In Northern Hemisphere this day has the fewest hours of sunlight at the beginning of winter

Question 32

Describe the autumn and spring equinoxes.

Answer 32

The days that have equal amount of day and night.

Question 33

How might latitude affect the population of a region?

Answer 33

The warmer latitude would attract more people and the colder latitude would hinder people from living there.

Question 34

Why is geography so important for us to study today?

Answer 34

so we can know about our world and its people and their cultures

Question 35

Define absolute location

Answer 35

It is the exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found.

Question 36

What is relative location?

Answer 36

what feature is in relation to surroundings.

Question 37

Name and define the 5 themes of Geography.

Answer 37

Location-the position of a place on the earths surface. Place-describes the characteristics of a location that make it unique. Human Environment Interaction- how people affect their environment affects them. Movement-how and why people,ideas and goods move from place to place. Regions-area of land on earths surface that have several common characteristics.

Question 38

What is the difference between physical geography and human geography?

Answer 38

Physical geography is the study of earths physical features. | Human geography is the study of humans and their way of life.

Question 39

How are satellites important to geographers today?

Answer 39

They help us see what is in space and they take pictures of earth.

Question 40

What is GPS and what is it used for?

Answer 40

Global Positioning System. It gives exact location

Question 41

What is a GIS and what is it used for?

Answer 41

Geographic Information System, Computer software that gathers, stores and analyzes geographic information.

Question 42

What things will we find on a political map

Answer 42

political boundaries of countries.cities and transportation routes.

Question 43

What thing will we find on a physical map?

Answer 43

elevation

Question 44

What is the difference in a small scale and large scale map?

Answer 44

A small scale map shows large land area but little detail. A large scale map shows small land areas with a lot of detail.

Question 45

What is a rotation?

Answer 45

to spin on axis

Question 46

What is a revolution?

Answer 46

one complete circuit around the sun.