World Geography

Earth has two kinds of movements: orbit and rotation. The Earth's rotation explains the stations- spring, summer, fall, and winter.

• True

• False

The combination of two numbers, one that indicates the position in the north or south direction, and in the other direction, east or west, is known as:

• Compass

• Geographic coordinates

• GPS

What is latitude zero?

• The Equator

• Greenwich Meridian

• The Tropic of Capricorn

What is longitude zero?

• The Equator

• The Greenwich Meridian

• The Tropic of Cancer

For a long time, we have used maps for navigating. What do you call the science that studies and creates maps?

• Cartography

• Geography

• Geology

What kind of map represents physical characteristics of Earth's surface such as mountains, valleys, coasts, river, seas, etc.?

• Physical map

• Political map

• Topographic map

• Thematic map

What map represents the territorial limits or frontiers between countries?

• Physical map

• Political Map

• Topographic map

• Hydrographic map

What map precisely represents the physical characteristics of a physical and sociocultural space such as the height of mountains, the extension of a body of water, the location of a region, etc.?

• Topographic map

• Thematic map

• Political map

• Physical map

What kind of map represents a specific theme, such as population movement, the origin of food, etc.?

• Thematic map

• Historical map

• Topographic map

• Political map

Joseph is reading a map and he sees some symbols. To understand what they mean, he has to:

• Identify the scale.

• Read the legend.

• Do a Google search.