SOCIAL STUDIES: First part of U2, L2 Use your Books to answer.

You may (and should!) use your book to look up, check, and answer the following. It covers the first part of Lesson 2, Pages 16 thru 19. You should make a good grade on this! Do you understand that you will be graded on this test?

• Yes

• No

Geography is the ___.

• study of Earth

• science of the Everglades

• study of maps

• science of fictional places

After reading Page 16, one should understand that everyone is affected by ___ because it includes types of land, bodies of water, weather, plants and animals in a place, and even what we wear and what we eat.

• weather

• states

• our country

• geography

Why is Florida so easy to locate on a map? Think!

• It is colorful and in the southeast.

• It has a lot of rivers, lakes, and streams.

• It sticks down into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

• It is part of the USA, and people like to visit Walt Disney World.

A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides is called a(n) ___.

• island

• peninsula

• key

• atoll

The area of water between South Florida and Cuba is called the ___.

• no man's land/waters

• Florida Keys

• great escape

• Straits of Florida

How many regions of the United States do we recognize?

• 2

• 5

• 3

• 4

The shapes that make up the earth's surface are referred to as ___.

• landforms

• mountains

• straiyts

• hills, rivers, streams

Name the two states that border Florida to the north.

• Mississippi and Alabama

• Alabama and South Carolina

• Georgia and Florida

• Alabama and Georgia

We live in the northwest part of Florida that is sometimes called the ___ because it looks like part of a frying pan.

• fry pan

• love handle

• panhandle

• cape