The United States in Spatial Terms Vocabulary Quiz

Five ideas that help you learn about the earth and everything on it are...

• location

• 5 themes of geography

• place

• hemisphere

This is one of the five themes of geography that tells where a place is.

• location

• place

• movement

• human environment interaction

Where a place is located in relation to other places is called...

• place

• movement

• geography

• relative location

The main land masses of the earth are called...

• plateaus

• geography

• continents

• mountain ranges

Half of the earth is called...

• a hemisphere

• a continent

• absolute location

• an Equator

An imaginary line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is the...

• absolute location

• Prime Meridian

• river system

• Equator

An imaginary line that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres is called the...

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• absolute location

• continent

The location of a place on earth identified by a grid system such as latitude and longitude is called...

• geography

• absolute location

• relative location

• place

This is one of the five themes of geography that tells what it's like there.

• location

• place

• movement

• relative location

Geographic features that come from nature are called...

• human characteristics

• continents

• 5 themes of geography

• physical characteristics