test questions

Geography is _______________

1. The study of maps
2. The Study of the location of things on the earth’s surface, and the reason for them being there
3. The study of why people move around the globe
4. The study of the concentration of populations in certain places

The art and science of map-making is called __________

1. Map-sketching
2. Geography
3. Social mapping
4. Cartography

The location that is expressed through degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude is called _________________

1. Absolute location 
2. Relative location 
3. Geographical location 
4. Coordinates

Relative location is found through 

1. A map
2. Degrees of longitude and latitude
3. A place’s location in reference to a more familiar place’s location
4. A compass

____________ is measured in imaginary lines that run east to west and measure the distance of a place north or south from the equator 

1. Longitude 
2. Latitude 
3. Degrees 
4. Borders

What line is at 0 degrees north or south?

1. Prime meridian 
2. Arctic circle
3. The tropic of Capricorn
4. The tropic of cancer 
5. The Equator

___________ is the imaginary lines that run north and south, converge at the poles, and measure a places distance east or west from the prime meridian.

1. Latitude 
2. Longitude 
3. Meridians 
4. B and C 

The Prime Meridian runs through which English town?

1. London 
2. Liverpool 
3. Greenwich 
4. None of the above

A ________ is a section of the globe that observes a standard time in order to make it more convenience of legal, commercial, or social reasons  

1. Time zone 
2. Time section 
3. UTC
4. GMT

Each timezone is about _____ degrees.

1. 30 
2. 24
3. 15
4. 60

_____ and _____ are synonyms for the main time that all of the world clocks work off of.

Correct answer: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)&GMT(Greenwich Mean Time)

Some temperate zone countries use _____________ by adjusting their local clocks by one hour

1. Light saving time 
2. Sunlight time 
3. Noontime 
4. Daylight savings time 

Bonus: Bel Air is found at ______ degrees north.

Answer: 39