Georgia Studies Chapter 1

What is an example of exact location?

• Ambrose, Georgia

• 30 degrees 18 minutes North

• North America

What separates the eastern and western hemishpheres?

• North Pole

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

What separates the earth into northern and southern hemispheres?

• Equator

• International Date Line

• Prime Meridian

Lines of latitude run parallel to the ___

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Lines of longitude run parallel to the __.

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Every hour the Earth rotates ___ degrees.

• 20 degrees

• 10 degrees

• 15 degrees

Georgia is in what time zone?

• Pacific

• Mountain

• Central

• Eastern

What two hemispheres is Georgia in?

• northern, western

• northern, eastern

• southern, eastern

• southern, western

What states border Georgia?

• Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina

• Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina

• Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina

What kind of map shows land formations like mountains, rivers, and lakes?

• population

• political

• physiographic