Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________ Period: ________ 

Unit 1 Study Guide 

Geographical Directions  

1. List the 4 cardinal directions:  ________________________________________________________________________ 

2. List the 4 intermediate directions:  ________________________________________________________________________ 

3. Label the cardinal and intermediate directions on the compass rose below. 

Continents and Oceans

1. List the 7 continents: ________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________ 

2. List the 5 oceans: ________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________ 

 

North, South, East, and West

Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast

N

NE

S

SW

W

NW

E

SE

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________ Period: ________ 

3. Identify the continents and oceans on the blank map below a. _____________________________ b. _____________________________ c. _____________________________ d. _____________________________ e. _____________________________ 

 1. _____________________________ 2. _____________________________ 3. _____________________________ 4. _____________________________ 5. _____________________________ 6. _____________________________ 7. _____________________________ 

**Make sure you are able to identify where each continent/ocean is in relation to each other. For example: T/F North America is northeast of Africa .**    

AsiaSouth AmericaEuropeAustraliaNorth AmericaAntarticaAfrica

PacificIndianAtlanticSouthernArctic

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________ Period: ________ 

Location 1. What is Relative Location? Provide an example. 

________________________________________________________________________  

2. What is Absolute Location? Provide an example. ________________________________________________________________________ 

 3. What type of lines run horizontally west to east around the globe at 0-90 ° 

N or S? ________________________________________________________________________ 

 4. What type of lines run vertically north to south around the globe at 0-180 ° 

W or E? ________________________________________________________________________ 

 5. What is the Prime Meridian? What hemispheres does it divide the Earth 

into? ________________________________________________________________________ 

 6. What is the Equator? What hemispheres does it divide the Earth into? 

________________________________________________________________________  

7. Label the hemispheres below. 

  **Make sure you are able to identify a line of latitude or longitude with degree information. For example, 113 refers to a line of latitude/longitude?W °  

Landmarks, Distance, etc. Example: I live South of Douglas County High School.

Latitude & Longitude Coordinates (25N, 33W) or an Address (12 Elm St., Ray, GA 30101

Lines of Latitude

Lines of Longitude

Located at 0 degrees Longitude & divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

Located at 0 degrees Latitude & divides the Earth into the Northern & Southern Hemispheres

Southwestern

Northwestern Northeastern

Southeastern

Line of Longitude

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________ Period: ________ 

Parts & Types of Maps 1. What is a map key? 

________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________ 

2. What is a map scale? ________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________ 

3. What is a border on a map? ________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________ 

4. What is a compass rose? ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________ 

5. What is a Political Map? ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________ 

6. What is a Physical Map? ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________ 

7. What is a Thematic Map? ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________ 

8. What is a Grid Map? ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________ 

      

Uses symbols or colors to represent things, and the map key explains what they mean

Shows the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the Earth

A line that defines exactly the edges of the area shown on the map.

A circlular symbol showing the principal directions printed on a map.

A map that shows the boundaries between cities, states, countries, and territories.

A map that shows landforms such as mountains, bodies of water, and deserts.

A map specifically designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific area.

Defines the coordinate system, and provide a unique reference to each location on the map.

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________ Period: ________ 

Connecting Themes in Geography  

1. Define and give an example of each of the following connecting themes. a. Human-Environmental Interaction 

__________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

b. Production, Distribution, Consumption ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

c. Conflict and Change ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

d. Culture and Governance ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

e. Time, Change, and Continuity ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

When humans interact with their environment by modifying it.

For example- heating a cold room or cooling a hot room.

Production has to do with producing a product.Distribution is taking what is produced and selling (or distributing it.Consumption refers to using up a product by "consuming."

When a conflict arises, change is the result.

Culture is someone's beliefs, customs and traditions.

Governance refers to when a society grows larger, the government grows larger.

Time measures how things have either changed or stayed the same.Change refers to something that is different from what occured previously.Continuity refers to things that stay the same, relatively unchanged over time.