Daily Geography Weeks 1 - 3 Study Guide

What is the name given to a point of land, usually smaller than a peninsula, extending into a body of water?

A cape is a point of land, usually smaller than a peninsula, extending into a body of water.

What is a desert?

A desert is a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Which is the only completely accurate representation of the earth, a flat map or a globe?

A globe is a completely accurate representation of the earth.

Locate the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada. Now write a definition of gulf. Place a map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in your google doc.

A gulf is a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.

What is the difference between a physical map and a political map?

A physical map shows landforms and mountains and such, while a political map shows the cities, states, countries, boundaries, and things like that.

What are the seven continents of the earth, from largest to smallest?

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

Latitude is measured north and south of which imaginary line?

Latitude is measured north and south of the equator.

What is the difference between latitude and longitude?

Latitude runs from east to west, while longitude runs from north to south.

Which lines measure the distance east and west of the prime meridian?

Lines of longitude measure east and west of the prime meridian.

What is the latitude of the North Pole? The South Pole?

North Pole: 90.0000° N, 0.0000° W South Pole: 90.0000° S, 0.0000° W

Is the tropic of Capricorn north or south of the Antarctic Circle?

North, but it can also be south because the earth is round.

What and where is Puerto Rico?

Puerto Rico describes an archipelago located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.

What is a sovereignty? Which country has a sovereignty over the only large political unit on the South American continent that is not a country? What is that unit?

Sovereignty is supreme power or authority. France has sovereignty over French Guiana.

Suriname and Guyana are countries on which continents?

Suriname and Guyana are both located in South America.

Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the Tropic of Cancer?

The Arctic Circle is north of the Tropic of Cancer.

Which line of longitude forms a great circle with the prime meridian?

The International Date Line (180 Degrees) forms a great circle with the prime meridian.

Lines of longitude are measured east and west of which imaginary line?

The Prime Meridian

What is the capital of the Central American country that has a major canal running through it?

The capital of Panama is Panama City.

Which oceans does the equator cross?

The equator passes through the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.

What are the names of the four hemispheres of the earth? In which two do you live?

The four hemispheres are the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, the East Hemisphere, and the West Hemisphere. I live in the North and West Hemispheres.

What part of a map contains information on the meaning of the map's symbols?

The map key/legend

What is the northernmost point in the world called? The southernmost?

The north and south poles.

Name the earth's oceans from largest to smallest.

The order is the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and finally the Arctic Ocean.

Which part of the map tells you the relationship between distance on the map and distance on the earth?

The scale