WorksheetsGeography 1
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What question does the theme of Place answer?
a)
What is it like?
b)
Where is it?
c)
How do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another?
d)
How do people relate to the physical world?
2.
What is the purpose of a compass rose?
a)
to tell time
b)
to show coordinates
c)
to show the temperature of a city
d)
to show directions
3.
Which of the following coordinates is written correctly?
a)
94°N, 12°N
b)
5°S, 78°W
c)
102°W, 10°E
d)
10°S, 52°N
4.
What type of map is this?
a)
physical map
b)
political map
c)
flow-line map
d)
topographic map
5.
Read the following:
"People learn to use what the environment offers them and to change that environment to meet their needs."
What theme of geography is this representing?
"People learn to use what the environment offers them and to change that environment to meet their needs."
What theme of geography is this representing?
a)
Location
b)
Human-Environment Interaction
c)
Region
d)
Place
6.
What is a difference between the ocean and a lake?
a)
The ocean has salt water, a lake flows to and from large bodies of water
b)
The ocean flows from a large body of water, a lake has 95% of the earth's salt water
c)
The ocean is an interconnected body of salt water covering 71% of the earth, a lake holds 95% of the earth's fresh water
d)
The ocean is divided into four main parts, a lake flows to and from large bodies of water
7.
How is absolute location different from relative location?
a)
Absolute location only deals with directions, relative location only deals with regions
b)
Absolute location gives an exact position of a feature on the earth's surface, relative location describes the feature's relationship to other features on the earth
c)
Absolute location refers to the use of coordinates on a physical map, relative location describes different regions based on their climate
d)
Absolute location uses the grid on a map and the compass rose, relative location uses psychological distance.
8.
What is the purpose of a physical map?
a)
To show the colors of landforms
b)
To show the size of landforms
c)
To show human-made borders
d)
To show landforms and bodies of water
9.
Why do geographers study movement?
a)
To understand human interaction with the environment
b)
To understand places and their regions
c)
To understand different points of view around the world
d)
To understand how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place
10.
What is an example of a landform?
a)
tornado
b)
canyon
c)
levee
d)
hurricane
11.
What must be present for erosion to occur?
a)
oxygen
b)
a transporting agent
c)
hydrogen
d)
soil
12.
What causes earthquakes?
a)
the movement of the continents
b)
the movement of tectonic plates
c)
the movement of the oceans
d)
the movement of the atmosphere
13.
What is a divergent boundary?
a)
Plates move apart, spreading horizontally
b)
Plates collide, causing either one plate to dive under the other or the edges of both plates to crumple
c)
plates slide past one another
d)
none of the above
14.
What is the difference between mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?
a)
Mechanical weathering produces no new particles; chemical weathering produces new chemicals in the lithosphere
b)
Mechanical weathering produces new soil and nutrients; chemical weathering damages the environment.
c)
Mechanical weathering produces smaller particles of rock; chemical weathering produces new substances.
d)
Mechanical weathering produces new substances; chemical weathering produces smaller particles of rock.
15.
How is place different from region?
a)
Place describes how humans interact with environment, region describes what a location is like.
b)
Place describes how people, goods, and ideas move, region describes how humans interact with the environment.
c)
Place describes where a region is located, region describes coordinates.
d)
Place describes what a location is like, region describes how places are similar or different.
16.
Which of the following is a type of thematic map?
a)
physical
b)
cartogram
c)
political
d)
transform
17.
How are the Richter scale and a seismograph used?
a)
Both are not related; the Richter scale is used to measure hurricane strength, the seismograph is used to measure earthquakes.
b)
The Richter scale uses a seismograph to measure the strength of tornadoes.
c)
The Richter scale uses a seismograph to determine the relative strength of an earthquake.
d)
The Richter scale gives an estimate as to the weight of earthquake damage measured by a seismograph.
18.
Which of the following is a transporting agent of erosion?
a)
gravity
b)
fire
c)
pollution
d)
magma
19.
What is the Ring of Fire?
a)
A zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean where there is major hurricane activity.
b)
A zone around the rim of the Atlantic Ocean where there is major earthquake activity.
c)
A zone around the rim of the Atlantic Ocean where there is major hurricane activity.
d)
A zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean where there is major earthquake activity.
20.
What is the lithosphere?
a)
The solid rock portion of the earth's surface that includes the core and the lower mantle
b)
The solid rock portion of the earth's surface that includes the core and the uppermost mantle
c)
The solid rock portion of the earth's surface that includes the crust and the uppermost mantle
d)
A layer of gases surrounding the earth that protects us from space debris and radiation
21.
What imaginary line separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere?
a)
prime meridian
b)
equator
c)
longitude
d)
compass rose
22.
What can be found on a map that identifies symbols used on the map?
a)
legend
b)
compass rose
c)
GPS
d)
latitude and longitude lines
23.
What are some examples of information that would be included in a place description?
a)
planets and stars
b)
the chemicals of the periodic table of the elements
c)
physical features and human-made features
d)
houses and schools
24.
Which of the following is in the earth's interior?
a)
landforms
b)
volcanoes
c)
magma
d)
lava
25.
What type of map is this?
a)
political
b)
physical
c)
flow-line
d)
qualitative
26.
Name this landform.
a)
hill
b)
delta
c)
glacier
d)
mountain
27.
Name this landform.
a)
canyon
b)
glacier
c)
prairie
d)
valley
28.
Name this landform.
a)
canyon
b)
valley
c)
flood plain
d)
cliff
29.
Name this landform.
a)
valley
b)
cliff
c)
island
d)
bay/gulf
30.
Which of the following is NOT a landform?
a)
tectonic plate
b)
butte
c)
steppe
d)
plateau
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