5th grade Geography Review s.s.

What are two of five themes of Geography?

• Place, Community

• Equator, Location

• Location, Place

• Society, Movement

How many continents does the Earth have?

• 5

• 7

• 9

• 2

Half way between the North Pole and the South Pole on a globe is a horizontal line called?

• Hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

• Continent

• Equator

Another line that runs vertical from North to South is the?

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Continent

• Hemisphere

What is a basin?

• Triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river,

• level of the surfaces of an ocean or a sea

• Point of land that extends into water.

• Bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land.

When reading a map, what is the first thing I should look at?

• The key?

• The inset map

• The Title

• The scale

What does a political map show?

• Cities, states, and countries.

• Shows parts of the world as they were in the past.

• Tells the subject of the map

• Shows kinds of land and bodies of water.

What does a physical map show?

• The subject of the map

• Kinds of land and bodies of water.

• A smaller map within a larger one.

• Part of the world as they were in the past.

What is a historical map?

• Shows kinds of land and bodies of water.

• Shows cities, states, and countries.

• Shows parts of the world as they were in the past.

• is a smaller map within a larger one.

What does a map key tell us?

• The title

• explains the symbols on a map

• a direction marker

• shows parts of the world.