Social Studies Grade 7 Practice Test

Geography was derived from which Greek words?

• geo

• fatio

• graphien

• agapi

Geography is _____?

• a description of the earth’s surface

• data came from physical science, biological science, and social science

• gives clear distribution of every event and its meaning to the existence of human beings to their environment

• helped us to shape our history as it has provided us our livelihood

How many continents are there?

• 1

• 4

• 7

• 2

The word Asia came from a Greek word. What word was it?

• asu

• geo

• rho

• ems

What is Australia's old name?

• Oceania

• Aust

• Aurali

• Atrala

What is a continent?

• What is a contintent?

• a big thing.

• a land mass

• largest kind of landform

How do you find the location of a continent or a country?

• I don't know

• latitude

• longitude

• What is a country?

What is latitude?

• divides the earth into northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere

• an angular distance that identifies the north and the south of the equator

• divides the earth into eastern hemisphere and western hemisphere

• angular distance that identifies the east and the west of the Prime Meridian.

What is longitude?

• I don't know

• sum total of the land area

• angular distance that identifies the east and the west of the Prime Meridian

• What is longitude?

What is the zero-degree latitude that divides the earth into northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere?

• The Equator

• The Prime Meridian

• I don't know