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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? Circle the two in which you live.
a.
c.
b.
d.
2.
Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the Tropic
of Capricorn?
3.
What are the two names 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. What river connects it to Lake Ontario
7.
Latitude is measured north and south of what
imaginary line?
8. What are the five themes of geography?
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 0 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.
On what continents can these, the four longest rivers in the world, be
found?
(1.) Nile
(2.) Amazon
(3.) Chang Jian
(4.) Mississippi
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 land 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
country has the most land in both Europe and Asia?
2.
Which
nation is farther south, Egypt or Greece?
3.
Madrid:
Spain :: _________________ : India
4.
What
two continents have a similar physical shape?
5.
The
0 degree line of longitude which passes through Greenwich, England, is called the
__________________________?
6.
Islamabad
is the capital of the country that borders Afghanistan, , Tajikistan,
Iran, and India. What is this country’s name?
7.
Does a
line of latitude or of longitude divide the Earth into the Eastern and Western
Hemispheres?
8. Istanbul is the capital of what country?
1.
Which
two hemispheres have the most land area?
2.
What
lines act as an “invisible grid” over the earth?
3.
What is
the capital of the country with the most land area in North America?
4.
How
many degrees (rounded to the nearest 5 degrees) are there between the equator and the
northern tip of Australia?
5.
What are the
five countries in
Western Africa that lie on or between 20 degrees N and 10 degrees
6.
The
second largest sea in the world is south of Haiti and The Dominican Republic. 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 San Francisco,
CA?
2. Name three seas that surround
the Philippine Islands.
3. Which tropic cuts
through a large North
American country? What is the
name of the country?
4. What state is west of New
Hampshire and east of
New York?
5. What oceans border
Indonesia?
6. What type of
land form separates Asia from Europe?
What is its name?
7. What continent is south
of the four major oceans of the world?
8. What capital city is near
the equator and 80 degrees W
line of longitude?
Daily Geography 9
Reminder: DOG is not accepted if the questions
and answers are not on your paper
when you come into class. Also,
please
remember the academic policy when doing
your homework. :)
1. Which country has the largest
land area in
Africa? (Use National Geographic
atlas)
2. What lines of latitude determine the "tropics"?
3. Which ocean is smaller, the Arctic or Indian?
4. Name at least 2 items a map's key should include.
5. Washington, D.C. : United
States : :
____________________ : Russia
6. Why is Greenwich, England, so
important to
a geographer?
7. What is the westernmost contiguous state in the United States?
8. What city is the capital of
Alabama and was the first
capital of the Confederacy?
Daily Geography 10 Name:
1. Which state usually has the coldest weather year round and why: Oregon, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia?
2. Where is the largest gulf in the world located? What is its name?
3. The land masses of Europe and Asia, together, are sometimes called _________________
4. Name the two states that are not part of the contiguous United States.
5. Every ___________ degrees of longitude on the Earth marks another time zone. Into how many time zones is the Earth divided?
6. What state is due north of Pennsylvania?
7. What is the approximate degree of longitude for the International Date Line? Why is it approximate and not exact?
8. Name the 4 oceans in order of size, smallest to largest.
Daily Geography 11
Name:
1. Names the five Great Lakes
2. Albany : New York : : ___________________ : 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, Canada,
Portugal?
5. Name the country in southeast Asia between Myanmar and
Laos that used to be called Siam.
6. How many countries does the
Antarctic Circle pass
through?
7. What ocean is closest 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 are the two largest seas in southern Europe that 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
smaller, the Red Sea or the Mediterranean Sea?
2.
There are ______degrees are there between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer?
3.
Ankara is
the capital of __________, 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
of the Unites 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?
1.
What two North American countries
touch the Beaufort Sea?
2.
Are there
any states located south of 25 degrees N latitude? If so, which one(s)?
3.
What one country
borders the
Mediterranean Sea
on the Iberian Peninsula?
4.
What is
the name of the bay that is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Hudson
Strait?
5.
What body of water separates Iran from Saudi Arabia?
6.
If you
were designing a map of your city, would you let 1 inch equal 1 mile, 100 miles,
or 500 miles? Why?
7.
What line
of latitude falls halfway between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn?
8. Which of the following states is farthest north:
Nebraska, Iowa, South
Dakota, or Michigan?
What is the capital city?
1.
What five
Asian countries are landlocked?
2.
What is
the name of the body of water that is part of the Indian Ocean between the east
coast of India and the Malay Peninsula?
3.
Which
country is the smallest in land area in Central America?
Which is the largest?
4.
What do
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan all have in common?
5.
If you
travel from the Eastern time zone to the Central time zone, you need to adjust
your watch. What do you need to do
to it?
6.
What two
countries in the Caribbean Sea share the same island?
7.
The
following are the five largest lakes in the world: To which continents do they belong?
(1) Caspian Sea
(2) Superior
(3) Victoria
(4) Aral Sea
(5) Huron
8. What continent lies south of the Atlantic Ocean?
1.
Cape
Agulhas is the southernmost point on what continent?
2.
What
capital city is near 20 degrees N latitude and 100 degrees W longitude?
3.
Would you
probably find a scale of 1 in. equals 1,500 mi. on a map of your city, state, or
world?
4.
Name at
least four countries on the African continent that are landlocked?
5.
In what
island nation does the equator cross 120 degrees E longitude?
6.
What is
the name of the only U.S. capital with three words in its name?
7.
In what
country does 40 degrees N latitude cross 40 degrees E longitude?
8. Which city is the capital of Hungary: Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna, Prague?
1.
________________ is the
isthmus which connects North and South America?
2. List the continents of the world arranged in land size, from smallest to largest (label largest and smallest)
3.
What
do Kingston, Jamaica and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo both have in common?
4.
What
is the proper noun name of the natural boundary which separates Texas from Mexico?
5.
What
capital city is near 40 degrees N. latitude and 83 degrees W longitude?
6.
What
large desert is found in
Mongolia
and northern China?
7. Which area has the highest elevation, eastern or western Brazil?
8. What is the capital of the landlocked country
that
borders Russia to the north and China to the south?
1.
What body
of water connects the Atlantic Ocean
and Lake Ontario?
2.
List
three types of landforms and provide an example of each.
3.
Honiara
is the capital of what island group found northeast of Australia?
4.
Which
state is due south of Kentucky?
5.
A
location exactly halfway between the equator and the North Pole has latitude of
how many degrees?
6.
Which
state capital is east of 90 degrees W longitude: Jackson, Indianapolis, St. Paul?
7.
Describe
the Atlantic Ocean’s location in relation to the continents it touches?
8. Is most of Africa north or south of the equator?
1.
If you
were at 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude, would you be walking or
swimming?
2.
Which
continent has the least land area, North America or South America?
3.
On which
continent and in which hemispheres do you reside?
4.
North of
Spain there is a
country that has coastlines on
both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?
5.
Does the
Tagus River have its source or mouth in Spain?
6.
What two
countries share
the island of Hispaniola?
7.
What
continents does the Arabian Sea border?
8. What is the capital of the country whose western border includes Lebanon?
1.
The mouth
of the Parana River is located in Argentina. In what country can its source be
found?
2.
In what
ocean do 20 degrees S latitude and 80 degrees E longitude intersect?
3.
Land
formed by soil deposited at the mouth of a river is a (an)____________. Give an
example of one
4.
What is
the only colony on the South American continent?
5.
Is it
farther to go from Venezuela to Bolivia or Venezuela to Cuba?
6.
What is
name of the salt lake located on the border between Israel and Jordan?
7.
Kathmandu
is the capital of which Asian nation?
8.
What is the name of a well-known cape in the
state of
Massachusetts?
1.
In what
direction does the Nile river flow?
2.
Paris,
France, is southeast of the intersection of _______ degree(s) longitude and
_______ degree(s) N latitude?
3.
Does
Mexico have more coastline on the
Pacific Ocean or on the
Gulf of Mexico?
4.
Is
the capital of
New Zealand,
Wellington, north or south of the 40 degrees S line
of latitude?
5.
What
country possesses Easter Island off the coast of South America?
6.
What is
the westernmost state in the United States?
7.
What
forms the natural boundary between Argentina and Uruguay?
8. What is the name of the
country located in the
Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain?
1.
What gulf
is
south of Yemen
and north of Somalia?
2.
What is
the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?
3.
What
large river in eastern Europe passes through Vienna, Austria and Budapest,
Hungary?
4.
Along
what line of longitude does the northeast border of California lie?
5.
What
large desert in Africa is almost as big as the forty-eight contiguous states in
the United States?
6.
The delta
of what river is south of the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago?
7.
What is
the capital of Montana, the state with the fourth largest land area in the
United States?
8. What is the proper noun name of the natural boundary between France and Spain?
1. Sofia is the
capital of what European nation?
2. Find the Nile River in Africa.
What two major cities are located near its delta?
3. What larger island is found
off the coast of southern Labrador?
4. What is the capital of the
only state that has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico and where the
100 degrees W
longitude passes through the state?
5. Which city doesn't lie near
the Mexican border: El Paso, San
Francisco, Laredo?
6. What European city is near the
intersection of 60 degrees N latitude and 30 degrees E longitude?
7. What major river is found in
northeast India?
8. Three-fourths of an inch on a
map equals 500 mi. From Chicago to Cleveland is 1/2 of an inch.
How far
would this be in miles?
1.
What
country is due south of Egypt?
2.
Is Phnom
Penh or Hanoi the capital of Vietnam?
3.
What
country that is not a member of the commonwealth of Independent States borders
the world’s largest lake?
4.
What
river runs west to east across the northern part of Italy?
5.
What is
the capital of the Scandinavian nation whose eastern border is Russia?
6.
Which
will have dawn first, eastern continental North America or eastern continental South America?
7.
What is
the capital of Idaho?
8.
What country has the longest border on the
Arabian Sea?
1. Which hemisphere, the
Northern or Southern,
has the most land?
2. What gulf is located south of
the intersection
of 50 degrees E longitude and 30 degrees N
latitude?
3. Which of the following is the
capital of
Lebanon: Basra, Baghdad, Boston, Beirut?
4. Which state capital is
north of 40 degrees N
latitude: Frankfort, Denver, Salt Lake City,
Columbus?
5. What Argentine river has the
same name as
one of the states in the United States?
6. What is the proper noun name
of the landform
that is part of the northwest corner of Africa?
7. What is the capital of
Germany?
8. What is the proper noun name
of the natural
boundary that separates Tennessee and
Arkansas?
1.
The Ural
Mountains in Russia are considered to be part of the boundary between Asia and
Europe. What line of east longitude
runs through these mountains?
2.
What is
the southernmost state in the United States?
3.
What
mountain range separates India and Nepal from China?
4.
What
desert lies along the southwest coast of Africa?
5.
Budapest
is to Hungary as ______________ is to Liechtenstein.
6.
A bay is
an arm of an ocean, sea, or lake extending into land.
Find an example of a bay on the North American continent.
7.
Which
meridians divide the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
8. What large lake is shared by the countries of Peru and Bolivia?
1.
What is
the capital of the country that is located on a long boot-shaped peninsula that
juts into the Mediterranean Sea?
2.
What
African lake borders Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon?
3.
How many
degrees are there between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?
4.
What is
the capital of New Mexico? At what
degree of latitude is this city located?
5.
What sea
touches Hong Kong?
6.
What is
the capital of Luxembourg, a European country smaller in land area than Rhode
Island?
7.
What is
the capital of the island nation southeast of Greenland?
8. Where is the sea of Okhotsk located?
1.
What is
the only state capital west of 150 degrees W longitude?
2.
A narrow
strip of land between two bodies of water connecting two large areas of land is
called a(an) ______________?
3.
Prague is
to the Czech Republic as ___________ is to Ireland?
4.
What is
the name of the northernmost state in the 50 United States?
5.
Which of
the following cities does not fit the order?
Lisbon,
Portugal
Vienna, Austria
Sofia, Bulgaria
Vaduz, Malta
6.
Are the
Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer lines of latitude or longitude?
7.
Does
northeastern or southeastern France have higher elevations?
8.
What
is the name of the large lake in South Central Australia?
1.
What
is the proper noun name of the chain of islands off the Alaskan Peninsula?
2.
What is
the capital of the westernmost country on the Scandinavian Peninsula?
3.
What sea
separates the continents of Europe and Africa?
4.
Which
state would you most likely visit if you enjoyed mountain climbing: Florida,
Washington, Indiana?
Why?
5.
Which
island group is closest to the South Pole: Falkland, Hawaiian, Solomon?
6.
Name the
three countries that border the Bay of Bengal.
7.
Name the two
capes at the southern tip of Africa.
8.
The capital of Poland is Warsaw.
Is this city east or
west of the 20 degrees E line of longitude?
1. Does the
Prime Meridian pass through the Arctic Circle
or the Antarctic Circle?
2. Find the Volga River in Russia. In what direction
does it flow?
3. What bay borders both France and Spain?
4. Which North American country is narrow enough to be
considered an isthmus?
5. What gulf
is located to the east of the intersection of
100 degrees E longitude and 10
degrees N latitude?
6. What two Great Lakes border Wisconsin?
7. The Amazon River in South America flows in what
direction?