6th Grade Geography
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The meridian that measures zero degrees longitude and separates the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. | show 🗑
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| The symbol on a map that shows the four cardinal and four intermediate directions. | show 🗑
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| The tool on a map that helps us to measure distance on a map. | show 🗑
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| show | The Key or Legend
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| show | An Atlas
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| The meridian that measures 180 degrees and separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. | show 🗑
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| The line of latitude that separates the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres | show 🗑
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| show | A Road Map
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| The map that shows towns, cities and country borders. (think political boundaries) | show 🗑
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| show | A Physical Map
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| The map that shows information about an area such as: rainfall, vegetation, population or products. | show 🗑
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| The map that shows what the land looks like from the side view. | show 🗑
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| show | defined where settlements began and ended, influenced invasions and trade routes
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| Where does the word "geography" originate from? | show 🗑
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| show | Erathosthenes
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| show | The science or practice of drawing maps
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| show | A scale, a Key and a Compass Rose.
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| Name the four Cardinal Directions | show 🗑
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| Name the four Intermediate Directions | show 🗑
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| Who is the first civilization known to have drawn maps? | show 🗑
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| Why did ancient civilizations need maps and the study of geography? | show 🗑
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| What are the two main areas of geography? | show 🗑
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| show | Movement, Region (Human interaction with)Environment, Location and Place
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| What are the two types of location | show 🗑
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| show | Lines of latitude and longitude
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| show | 0 degrees latitude
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| show | when a location is given as a comparison to something else
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| show | A globe is a more accurate 3D view of the earth whereas a map is a flat 2D view that is distorted.
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| What is the Mercator Projection map? | show 🗑
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| show | A view of the land that is in better proportion but the land masses are stretched and distorted.
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| show | Maps are often locally created and they reflect the biases in a culture.
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| show | an area defined by certain similar characteristics such as physical, natural, human or cultural aspects
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| show | formal, functional and perceptual
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| show | a region with clear boundaries such as a state or country
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| What is a functional region? | show 🗑
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| What is a perceptual region? | show 🗑
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| show | what the area is like to live in-physical features, human made features and landscape.
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| What does the geography theme of movement describe? | show 🗑
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| show | imported and exported
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| show | through TV, radio, internet, books, telephone and people
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| show | movement between all people around the earth; sharing of ideas/culture creating an interdependence
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| show | theory of migration that says people move because certain things in their lives "push" them to leave and certain things in a new place "pull" them.
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| What is the push factor? | show 🗑
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| What is the pull factor? | show 🗑
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| What is the Land Bridge Theory? | show 🗑
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| What are some ways that humans interact with the land? | show 🗑
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