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1.
What
are the names of the Earth’s oceans?
a.
c.
b.
d.
2.
What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth in half
horizontally?
3.
What is the northernmost point in the world called?
4.
What part of a map contains the information on what the map’s symbols
mean?
5.
Find an example of an area of land that is completely surrounded by
water. Write down its name. What term is used to describe this type of land?
6.
All lines of longitude are measured east and west of what imaginary line?
7.
What does a star on a map usually mean?
8. Which of the following is not a state: Idaho, Houston, New Mexico, Colorado?
1. What are the names of the
four hemispheres of
the
Earth? In which two do you live?
a.
c.
b.
d.
2.
Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the Tropic
of Capricorn?
3.
What is the name given to a point of land extending into a body of water?
4.
What lines measure distances east and west of the Prime Meridian?
5.
Which of the following is not a city: Dallas, St.
Paul, Cincinnati, Delaware?
6.
Locate the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern
Canada. Now write a definition of a gulf.
7.
Latitude is measured north and south of what
imaginary line?
8. What does a star or dot in a circle usually mean on a map?
1.
Is the Tropic of Capricorn north or south of the equator?
2.
What are the names of the seven continents of the earth?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
3.
What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
4.
French Guiana and Guyana are countries on what continent?
5.
Which oceans do the equator cross?
6.
What line of longitude forms the other half of the Prime Meridian?
7.
What is the capital of the only state bordered on the south by Arkansas
and through which the 40 N line of latitude passes?
8. What is the capital of the Central American country that has a major canal running through it?
1.
What is the capital of the South American country of Brazil?
2.
What country has the largest land area in the Western Hemisphere?
3.
What is the city located on the Chesapeake Bay that is the capital of
Maryland?
4.
Through which four South American countries does the 20 degrees S line of
latitude pass?
5.
The following are the four longest rivers in the world: (1.) Nile, (2.)
Amazon, (3.) Chang Jian, (4.) Mississippi. On what continents can they be
found?
6.
Is Lima, the capital of Peru, east or west of the 80 degrees W line of
longitude?
7.
What are the three continents with the largest land areas in the world?
8. How many degrees south of the equator is the South Pole?
1.
What is the capital of the country whose neighbors are Colombia, Brazil,
and Guyana?
2.
If you are a resident of Canberra, Australia, are you a resident of an
island or a continent?
3.
Why are lines of latitude and longitude important?
4.
Name the seven countries that are part of Central America.
5.
Which continent is smaller in area than Europe?
6.
What is the capital of the country through which the 40 degrees N line of
latitude and 20 degrees E line of longitude pass?
7. Into how many degrees of longitude is the Earth divided?
8.
If it is dawn in the
eastern U.S., what is it in the
western U.S.? Why?
1.
Which
one country has the largest land area in both Europe and Asia?
2.
Which
nation is farther north, Egypt or Greece?
3.
Bogota:
Colombia :: _________________ : India
4.
What
two continents are similar in physical shape?
5.
The
line of longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England, is called the
_____________ _____________?
6.
Kabul
is the capital of the country that borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Iran, and Pakistan. What is this country’s name?
7.
Does a
line of latitude or of longitude divide the Earth into the Northern and Southern
Hemispheres?
8. Tunis is the capital of what country?
1.
Which
hemisphere, the Eastern or Western, has the most land area?
2.
What
lines make up the Earth’s “grid” system?
3.
What is
the capital of the country with the largest land area in the Western Hemisphere?
4.
How
many degrees are there between the equator and the southern tip of Greenland?
5.
Name
five countries in Africa that have coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and lie on
or between 20 degrees N and 10 degrees N.
6.
The
second largest sea in the world is south of Cuba. What is its name?
7.
What
country in southern Africa, with Mozambique and South Africa on its eastern and
southern borders respectively, used to be called Rhodesia?
8.
Draw a compass rose
and label the eight cardinal
and intermediate directions.
Daily Geography 8
1. From which direction does the sun rise in Los Angeles,
CA?
2. Name 3 seas that surround
the Philippines.
3. The Tropic of Cancer cuts
through what large North
American country?
4. What state is west of New
Hampshire and east of
New York?
5. What oceans border
Australia?
6. What landform separates
Europe from Asia?
What is its name?
7. What continent is south
of the 4 major oceans of the world?
8. What capital city is near
the equator and 80 degrees W
line of longitude?
Daily Geography 9
1. Which country has the largest
land area in
North America?
2. What lines of latitude determine the "tropics"?
3. Which ocean is larger, the Arctic or Indian?
4. Name at least 2 items a map's key should include.
5. Washington, D.C. : United
States : :
____________________ : China
6. Why is Greenwich, England, so
important to
a geographer?
7. What is the easternmost state in the United States?
8. What city is the capital of
Alabama and the 1st
capital of the Confederacy?
Daily Geography 10 Name:
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1. Which state usually has the coldest weather year round and why: Oregon, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia?
2. What is the largest gulf in the world?
3. What term do geographers use when they refer to the land masses of Europe and Asia as one?
4. The 48 states that touch one another are called contiguous. Name the states that are not part of the contiguous United States.
5. Every 15 degrees of longitude on the Earth marks another time zone. Into how many time zones is the Earth divided?
6. What state is due east of Connecticut?
7. What is the approximate degrees of longitude for the International Dateline?
8. Name the 4 oceans in order of size, largest to smallest.
Daily Geography 11
Name:
1. What are the names of the 5 Great Lakes?
2. Helena : Montana : : ___________________ : Oregon
3. What is the name of the
largest lake in Central
America?
4. What do the following
countries have in common:
Angola, French Guiana, United States,
Portugal?
5. A country in southeast Asia between Myanmar and
Laos used to be called Siam. What is it
called today?
6. How many countries does the
Antarctic Circle pass
through?
7. What is the closest ocean to Mongolia?
8. What is the capital of the
island that has the Sea
of Japan as its western border?
Daily Geography 12 Name:
1. What is the name of the
country completely
surrounded by South Africa?
2. What 2 oceans touch Russia?
3. Which state capital is farther
north, Utah's or
Illinois's? How do you know?
4. What imaginary lines divide
the Earth into the
Eastern and Western hemispheres?
5. Seoul is the capital of which east Asian nation?
6. Which is closer to the South
Pole, the southern tip
of Africa or the most southern edge of
mainland
Australia?
7. What is the name of the
Spanish islands off the
northwest coast of Africa?
8. What continents does the
Arctic Circle pass
through?
1.
Which is
larger, the Red Sea or the Mediterranean Sea?
2.
How many
degrees are there between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer?
3.
What is
the capital of Turkey, a country which occupies land known as Asia Minor?
4.
What
continents do not have any land in the Southern Hemisphere?
5.
What
states border Lake Michigan?
6.
How many
states are on or above the 60 degrees N line of latitude?
7.
What do
the following countries have in common: Chad, Paraguay, Hungary, Swaziland?
8.
What is the name of one of the largest bodies of fresh
water in the world that is
located in eastern Africa?