U1L1 Review

The two continents located entirely in the Western Hemisphere are _____________________ and _______________________

• North America and South America

• Europe and Asia

• Africa and Australia

• Antarctica and Europe

Geographers use a global grid to indicate the ________________ location of any place on earth.

• absolute

• relative

• approximate

• general

Relative location tells you where a place is compared to ____________________ ________________________________.

• another place

• the weather

• a time zone

• a direction

A meridian of longitude is an imaginary line that runs from the _________________ to the ________________________.

• North Pole, South Pole

• Equator, Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn

• Greenwich, International Date Line

______________________ is the reason maps cannot represent the exact size or shape of earth’s features.

• Distortion

• Rotation

• Erosion

• Latitude

The main advantage of the Goode’s Homolosine Projection Map is that it shows the size and shapes of continents more ________________________.

• accurately

• randomly

• vaguely

• incorrectly

A map’s scale compares distance on a map with distance on ________________.

• Earth

• the Moon

• a globe

• the Sun

The tilt of Earth’s axis toward the ________________ causes the changing of ________________ throughout the year.

• sun, seasons

• moon, tides

• stars, months

• clouds, weather

A map’s title gives us our first clue about its ________________________.

• subject

• scale

• legend

• distance

The global grid is a system of ________________ and ______________ that allows you to locate any place on Earth with a number code.

• latitude, longitude

• altitude, depth

• temperature, pressure

• climate, weather