Unit 1 Quiz

Type Your first and last name.

What class period are you in?

• 3rd
• 4th
• 5th

Geographers look at the world

• by studying cities first.
• at the local, regional, and global levels.
• by studying only its physical features.
• as separate regions with no effect on each other.

A geographer's tools include

• maps and globes.
• notebooks and tape recorders.
• satellite images.
• All the above.

Which of the following questions might a geographer studying at a local level ask?

• Which products does a country export?
• What languages do people speak in South America?
• How do people in a town or community live?
• What features make up a physical region?

Your street address would be an example of

• absolute location.
• relative location.
• your environment.
• your society.

Globes can show

• specific information about a place, such as languages spoken or street names.
• a flat representation of Earth's surface.
• the world as it really is.
• more information than maps.

Geography is both a science and social science.

• True
• False

Geographers divide the world into two regions based on latitude and longitude.

• True
• False

Showing the round Earth on flat maps will distort some details.

• True
• False