Geography Exam

is the most important horizontal imaginary line.

• The Prime Meridian

• The Equator

• The Tropic of Cancer

Movement in which the earth rotates on its own axis, lasts 24 hours and originates the succession of days and nights.

• Rotation

• Revolution

What are the two geographic coordinates used to locate a place on the Earth's surface called?

• Distance and time.

• Rotation and Revolution

• Latitude and longitude

The Earth completes one of these every 365 days

• rotation

• revolution

What can you use to locate a place?

• A map

• comic book

• Coloring book

What continent do we live on?

• North America

• South America

• Africa

What does a compass rose show?

• Country

• Distance

• Directions

The Earth spins on a tilted angle called a (an) 

• Revolution

• Axis

• Rotation

What is the name of this map feature?

• Title

• Key/legend

• scale

What is the name of the line at zero degrees longitude?

• north pole

• equator

• Prime meridian