Test Questions

1. What are three examples of site?
    climate, water, and elevation

2. What is the definition of geography?
    The study of where things are on Earth's surface and the reason for their location. 

3. What is one question that geographers ask when using map?
    Where are people and activities found on Earth? 

4. What is cartography?
    a. a 2  dimensional model of Earth's surface
    b. the art and science of mapmaking
    c. a region of Earth that observes a uniform standard time

5. What is another name for lines of latitude?
    a. parallels 
    b. lines of longitude
    c. half circles

6. What degree of longitude is the Prime Meridian at on Earth?
    0 degrees

7. What does UTC stand for?
    a. Greenwich Mean Time
    b. Daylight Savings Time
    c. Coordinated Universal Time
    d. absolute location

8. How many degrees wide is each time zone?
    15 degrees

9. What did Eratosthenes do that was significant?
     a. he made the first map of the World as they knew it
     b. created time zones
     c. demolished daylight savings time

10. Why do some people want to demolish Daylight Savings Time?
     The purpose for it is not around anymore 

11. What are the significant parallels that we learned?
     Arctic Circle
     Tropic of Cancer
     Equator
     Tropic of Capricorn
     Antarctic Circle

12. Which way do lines of latitude run?
     a. North to South
     b. East to West