Unit 1 - Geography & History Test Review

People, goods and ideas traveling from one place to another is called what?

• Exercise

• Movement

• Traveling

• Human characteristic

In a sociology class, students are studying different societies. The professor explains that 'culture' is best described as

• the way of life for a specific group of people, such as their traditions, language, and social structures.

• the way that people in a society communicate, such as their language or gestures.

• the way people in a society travel from place to place, such as their modes of transportation.

• the color of someone's skin in a society.

_____________ provides the orientation through cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) on a map.

• Map Key

• Title

• Scale

• Compass Rose

The continent that is orange is _____________________.

• North America

• Asia

• Africa

• South America

Natural resources are

• resources that are man-made.

• resources that exist on Earth independent of human actions.

• resources that humans buy at a store.

• resources that existed during the Ice Age.

A _______________ map shows the man-made boundaries of states and countries.

• Physical

• Climate

• Special purpose

• Political

Answer explanation

A political map shows man-made boundaries such as states and countries. It is called 'political' because these boundaries often change due to politics. The other options, Physical, Climate, and Special purpose maps, represent different aspects like physical features, climatic conditions and specific data respectively, which are not related to man-made boundaries.

A ___________ is used to measure the distance between two places on a map.

• Compass rose

  Orientation

• Scale

• Title

• Map Key

  Legend

Answer explanation

The question asks about the tool used to measure the distance between two places on a map. The correct answer is 'Scale'. A scale on a map is a ratio that shows the relation between the distances on the map to the actual distances on the ground. Therefore, it is used to measure the distance between two places on a map.

Two of the five oceans include the ____________ Ocean and the _______________ Ocean.

• Atlantic, Caribbean

• Pacific, Arctic

• Caribbean, Mexico

• Arctic, South Pole

Latitude lines are imaginary lines that run from _____________ to _________________.

• North, South

• North America, South America

• Africa, Asia

• East, West

Answer explanation

The correct answer is 'East, West'. Latitude lines, also known as parallels, are imaginary lines on the Earth's surface that run from east to west. They are used to measure distances north or south of the Equator.

The Prime Meridian is 0 degree line of

• Longitude

• Latitude