Interim Assessment I Review

In the 5 Themes of Geography, location is?

• Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another

• Geographers study how people affect or shape the physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how do their surroundings affect them

• Geographers begin to study a place by finding where it is, or its location

• Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

• Geographers study the physical and human features of a location

Describe the functions of a Map Scale?

• Helps you find distances on a map

• Helps you find out how much you weigh

• May be marked in N,E,S,W

• Helps you identify the symbols on a map

This reference line divides the world into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

• Continental Divide

• Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

What is geography?

• The study of plants and animals

• The study of the earth’s land, water, people, plants, and animals

• The study of weather patterns

• The study of rocks and minerals

In the 5 Themes of Geography, place is?

• Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another

• Geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how does their surroundings affect them

• Geographers begin to study a place by finding where it is, or its location

• Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

• Geographers study the physical and human features of a location

Which of the following is a Province of New Mexico?

• Four Corners

• Great Basin

• Rocky Plateau

• None of the above

The exact position of a place using longitude and latitude?

• Approximate Location

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Reference Location

The five themes of geography are?

• North, East, South, Southeast, and West

• Latitude, Longitude, Exact Location, Equator, and Address

• Location, human-environment interaction, Place, Region, and Movement

• North America, Australia, Africa, Indian Ocean, Western Hemisphere

The regions of the United States are grouped by history, traditions, economy, climate, and geography.

• True

• False

Identify the four Provinces of New Mexico

• Upper Sonoran, Transition , Canadian, Hudsonian

• Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West

• Latitude, Longitude, Prime Meridian, Equator

• Rocky Mountain, Basin and Range, Colorado Plateau, Great Plains