Geography Quiz

Who is considered the Father of Geography?

When were the Five Themes of Geography developed?

What does Human Environment Interaction in geography focus on?

When was the study of geography officially named geography?

What is the branch of geography that focuses on how human culture and society have formed the Earth?

Who was the first recorded scholar to have used the term geography?

What are the two main sections into which geography is broken?

What is the term used to refer to the notions people have of what is East and what is West and other geographical concepts?

What is the main difference between physical and political boundaries?

What are the three types of regions used to divide the earth for study?

According to metageography, which continent is to the East or West is determined by:

What are the five macrogeographic regions mentioned in the text?

What term refers to the true location of places geographically as opposed to our perception of location?

What does the term 'metageography' emphasize?

What concept does movement focus on?

Which tool is widely used by scientists and researchers to communicate and share location-based data more effectively?

What is the best-known geography tool that uses satellites to calculate the location of objects by measuring the frequency of radio signals?

What kind of map provides data to explain a phenomenon in a particular location?

What is the ancient science in the form of map-making?

Which projection, developed in 1570, is still used in many maps today?

What does GIS stand for?

What is the act of making maps, including thematic maps?

Which type of map uses continuous lines to represent data, such as elevation changes?

Which type of map uses color and shade to represent amounts of data, such as county political affiliation?

Which map does not represent real physical space and stretches or shrinks data over its location?

Which type of map uses tiny dots to represent each piece of data, such as incidents of disease in a neighborhood?

Which continent is a combination of Europe and Asia, with Eastern Europe and Western Asia acting as a subtle border between the two?

Which continent is the only one to have no permanent human civilizations?

Which type of region is organized by shared dependencies on a system?

What is the term used to refer to the true location of places geographically as opposed to our perception of location?

What is the equator's latitude?

What do geographical coordinates specify?

What is the prime meridian's longitude?

What does the ratio in a scale map represent?

What is the latitude's role in geographical coordinates?

What is the role of longitude in geographical coordinates?

What is the purpose of a scale map?

What does the equator represent in geographical coordinates?

What is the role of latitude in plotting geographical coordinates?

What is the function of longitude in plotting geographical coordinates?

What is the purpose of a map legend?

What does the map scale express?

What is the purpose of the map key?

What does the geographic coordinate system let you locate?

What does the latitude measure?

What does the longitude measure?

What does the map legend include?

What does a Cartesian coordinate plane transfer onto a flat, x-y coordinate plane?

What is the best way to show spatial relationships on Earth?

What is the main purpose of a map?