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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
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
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 contiguous state in the United States?
8. What city is the capital of
Alabama and the 1st
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. 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?
1.
The
Beaufort Sea touches what two North American countries?
2.
Are there
any states located south of 25 degrees N latitude? If so, which one(s)?
3.
What is
the only country on the Iberian Peninsula that borders the Mediterranean Sea?
4.
What is
the name of the bay that is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Hudson
Strait?
5.
What is
the body of water that 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 state 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.
What
isthmus connects North and South America?
2.
What
are the continents of the world arranged in land size, from largest to smallest?
3.
What
do Kingston, Jamaica and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo both have in common?
4.
What
natural boundary 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 northern China and Mongolia?
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 Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean?
2.
List
three types of landforms and provide an example of each.
3.
What
island group found northeast of Australia has a capital of Honiara?
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 Pacific 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 largest land area, North America or South America?
3.
On which
continent and in which hemispheres do you reside?
4.
What is
the capital of the country north of Spain 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.
The
island of Hispaniola is shared by what two countries?
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)____________. Find an
example of one on your map.
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 Gulf of Mexico or on the Pacific Ocean?
4.
Is
Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, 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 north of Somalia and south of Yemen?
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 natural boundary between France and
Spain?