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True-False Quiz

True-False Quiz
This True-False Quiz exercise is designed to reinforce the knowledge you gained while reading Chapter 1, Introduction to Earth.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	Geography is concerned with the environment as it provides a home for humankind, and with the way humans utilize that environmental home.    True  False

	Earth's highest point is more than 36,000 feet above sea level, while the deepest spot in the oceans is almost 29,000 feet.    True  False

	A house in Chile would include wilndows facing north in order to have Sun all year around.    True  False

	Properly described as an oblate spheroid, Earth is a true sphere.    True  False

	The way we locate ourselves on Earth through a network of intersecting lines is referred to as a grid system.    True  False

	Latitude is distance measured east and west of the poles.    True  False

	Longitude is a distance measured east and west on Earth's surface in the same degrees, minutes, and seconds as latitude is.    True  False

	A meridian is a great semicircle that extends from one pole to the other, crossing all parallels of latitude perpendicularly and being aligned in a true north–south direction.    True  False

	Longitude is measured both east and west of the prime meridian to a maximum of 90º in each direction.    True  False

	Both day length and the angle at which the Sun's rays strike Earth are principal determinants of the amount of insolation received at any particular latitude.    True  False

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