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Kacey's Geography Vocab

This is for Mrs. Hunt's geography class. We have a vocabulary test tomorrow and this quiz will probably help you study for it. It is a very easy quiz.

This quiz is basically our geography vocabulary and it's not that hard I guess, just do good. It includes words such as identical and Tropics. I am proud.

Created by: Kacey

What is geography?
- the study of Earth's surface
- the study of Earth and its people
- how people affect their environment
What are themes?
- topics
- the position of a place on Earth's surface
- natural surroundings
What is location?
- the study of Earth's surface
- how and why people, ideas, and goods move from place to place
- the position of a place on the Earth's surface
What is absolute location?
- where a feature is in relation to the features around it
- the exact spot on Earth where a geographic feature is found
- the position of a place on the Earth's surface
What is relative location?
- where that feature is in relation to the features around it
- the study of Earth and its people
- a period of 10 years
What is place?
- the characteristics of a location that make it unique or different
- natural surroundings
- something that examines Earth's land areas, bodies of water, plant, and other physical features
What are physical features?
- a period of 1,000 years
- people and their activities, religions, languages, and ways of life
- landforms, plants, animals, and weather patterns that define a place
What is human-environment interaction?
- how people affect their environment, and how their environment affects them
- natural surroundings
- areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics, such as land, natural resources or population
What is environment?
- natural surroundings
- a period of 100 years
- a planet's path around the Sun
What is movement?
- computer hardware and software that gather, store, and then analyze geographic information then displays it onto a screen
- how and why people, ideas, and goods move from place to place
- important
What are regions?
- areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics, such as land, natural resources, or population
- the opposite
- the low-latitude areas near the Equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
What is physical geography?
- examines Earth's land areas, bodies of water, plant life, and other physical features
- a period of 100 years
- a planet's path around the Sun
Who are human geographers?
- people and their activities, religions, languages
- spins
- the layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds Earth
How many years are in a decade?
- 10
- 100
- 1,000
How many years are in millennium?
- 10
- 100
- 1,000
How many years are in a century?
- 10
- 100
- 1,000
What is the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
- satellite that uses radio signals to determine the exact location of places on Earth
- a planet's path around the Sun
- Earth and several other planets that orbit around the Sun
What are Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
- when Earth's combined 365 1/4 days are combined to make 366 days
- computer hardware and software that gather, store, and then analyze geographic information then displays it onto a screen
- important
What is the Solar System?
- a planet's path around the Sun
- Earth and several other planets that orbit around the Sun
- the day with the most hours of sunlight, the beginning of summer
What is an orbit?
- the layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds Earth
- a planet's path around the Sun
- natural surroundings
What is a revolution?
- 365 1/4 days; a complete circuit around the Sun
- important
- equal
How does a leap year happen?
- when Earth's combined 365 1/4 days are combined to make 366 days
- when the day with the fewest hours of sunlight appears
- when the axis spins for 24 hours
What does rotate mean?
- spins
- equal
- the opposite
What is the axis?
- the layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds Earth
- an imaginary line that passes through the center of Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole, one complete rotation every 24 hours
- the opposite
What is the atmosphere?
- the layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds Earth
- the study of Earth and its people
- the position of a place on the Earth's surface
What does significant mean?
- equal
- spins
- important
What is the summer solstice?
- the day with the most hours of sunlight, the beginning of summer
- the day with the least hours of sunlight, the beginning of winter
- when day and night are of identical length in both hemispheres
What is the winter solstice?
- the day with the most hours of sunlight, the beginning of summer
- the day with the least hours of sunlight, the beginning of winter
- Earth and several other planets that orbit around the Sun
What does reversed mean?
- the opposite
- equal
- important
What are equinoxes?
- when day and night are of identical length in both hemispheres
- when the day with the fewest hours of sunlight appears
- when the axis spins for 24 hours
What does identical mean?
- spins
- important
- equal
What are the Tropics?
- the low-latitude areas near the Equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
- the day with the least hours of sunlight, the beginning of winter
- the layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds Earth

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