What is a map? Check all that apply.

• graphic representation on a flat surface of features of an area of the Earth

• a 3D representation of the Earth

• an important tool of a Geographer

• a detailed photographic illustration of a location with borders and labels

Answer explanation

Fun fact: Cartography is the science of drawing maps.

What is a region?

• an area of land that has different features without anything in common

• an area of land that has common features

What is the study of people, their cultures, and their distribution across Earth’s surface?

• Technological Geography

• Physical Geography

• Human Geography

• Locational Geography

What is the study of Earth’s surface features?

• Physical Geography

• Human Geography

• Locational Geography

• Technological Geography

Adjusting the way we live in or around landforms to meet our needs is known as

• human modification

• human adaptation

• human movement

• human regionalization

Deforestation is an example of humans ________________ the environment.

• adapting to

• modifying

• sustaining

• maintaining

Answer explanation

Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land. Throughout history and into modern times, forests have been razed to make space for agriculture and animal grazing, and to obtain wood for fuel, manufacturing, and construction.

Deforestation has greatly altered landscapes around the world. In North America, about half of the forests in the eastern part of the continent were cut down from the 1600s to the 1870s for timber and agriculture. Much of Earth’s farmland was once forests.

Building a house on stilts in coastal regions to avoid flooding is an example of _______________ the environment.

• adapting to

• modifying

• moving

• maintaining

Place describes

• the exact location of something.

• the modifications done to the environment.

• the movement of people to a location.

• the human and physical characteristics of a location.

Geography is

• the memorization of state capitals and country flags.

• the study of maps and the political boundaries of all the countries.

• the study of the spatial characteristics of the world’s land and people.

• an area of land with similar characteristics.

Location is

• the study of maps.

• an exact point on the Earth's surface.

• the unique characteristics of a place.

• the study of the Earth's surface.