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Worksheets6th Grade CBA Review 1
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 41mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of continent #5?
a)
North America
b)
Europe
c)
Africa
d)
Asia
2.
What is the name of continent #7?
a)
Australia
b)
Africa
c)
Asia
d)
Europe
3.
What is the name of continent #6?
a)
Africa
b)
Asia
c)
Europe
d)
Australia
4.
What climate is most of South America?
a)
Polar
b)
Tropical
c)
Temperate
d)
Arid
5.
What line of latitude is at 0°?
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
North Pole
d)
South Pole
6.
What line of longitude is at 0°?
a)
South Pole
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
North Pole
d)
Equator
7.
When someone says that a river is 250 miles north of San Antonio, which way of describing location is being used?
a)
Absolute location
b)
relative location
8.
The study of _________ is geography.
a)
the sun
b)
people
c)
animals
d)
the earth
9.
North, South, East, and West are called the ______________ directions.
a)
Cardinal
b)
Intermediate
10.
Latitude lines are also called ...
a)
equators
b)
meridians
c)
parallels
11.
Longitude lines are also called
a)
prime meridians
b)
parallels
c)
meridians
12.
A _____________ is half of the earth.
a)
sphere
b)
hemisphere
c)
longitude
d)
Prime Meridian
13.
Which of the following best describes the geographic theme of PLACE?
a)
What is it like when you get there?
b)
What do the places have in common?
c)
What does the environment do for the people?
d)
how do people and ideas get around?
14.
On which continent is the South Pole located?
a)
Australia
b)
South America
c)
North Pole
d)
Antarctica
15.
TRUE OR FALSE: location means the exact spot on a map
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Which continent includes Central America (where Mexico is located)?
a)
North America
b)
South America
c)
Europe
d)
Asia
17.
Which continent has the Pacific Ocean to the West, the Atlantic Ocean to the East, and the continent North America above?
a)
Asia
b)
Australia
c)
Europe
d)
South America
18.
Where is it?
a)
Place
b)
Location
c)
Movement
d)
Region
19.
Where is it exactly on the Earth?
a)
Place
b)
Perfect Location
c)
Absolute Location
d)
Relative Location
20.
What is it like?
a)
Place
b)
Location
c)
Human Environment Interaction
d)
Movement
21.
How do people, plants, animals, and ideas move through out time and place?
a)
Place
b)
Location
c)
Region
d)
Movement
22.
In what ways do people adapt to their environment, or change their environment in order to meet their needs.
a)
Human Environment Interaction
b)
Place
c)
Location
d)
Region
23.
The imaginary line that runs through the middle of the earth east and west is called?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Equator
c)
Date Line
24.
Longitude lines run _________.
a)
East/West
b)
North South
25.
Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which?
a)
Location
b)
Place
c)
Human-Environment Interaction
d)
Movement
26.
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
a)
Movement, Region, Place, Location and Human-Environment Interaction
b)
Movement, State, Country, Ocean, Planet
c)
Movement, Location , Place, Book, and Human-environment Interaction
27.
_________________ location describes where a place is in relation to another place.
a)
Animal
b)
Human
c)
Relative
d)
Absolute
28.
The areas that share common characteristics are called
a)
Movements.
b)
Absolute locations.
c)
Regions.
d)
Relative locations.
29.
This theme is the physical and human characteristics that make a location unique. The theme is called
a)
Regions.
b)
Place.
c)
Movement.
d)
Human-Environment Interaction.
30.
There are two types of location; they are
a)
movement and place.
b)
absolute and relative.
c)
human interaction and movement.
d)
absolute movement and relative places.
31.
What is the capital of United States of America?
a)
New York
b)
Chicago
c)
Los Angeles
d)
Washington
32.
Which state of US is the biggest?
a)
Texas
b)
Maryland
c)
Alaska
d)
Oklahoma
33.
What state is that?
a)
California
b)
Utah
c)
Connecticut
d)
Hawaii
34.
This tells you which directions a map is showing.
a)
Legend
b)
Distance Scale
c)
Compass Rose
d)
Cool Points
35.
What is the largest Continent?
a)
Europe
b)
Africa
c)
Asia
d)
South America
36.
What is the largest Ocean?
a)
Arctic
b)
Indian
c)
Atlantic
d)
Pacific
37.
Which two continents are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere?
a)
Europe and Africa
b)
Asia and Antarctica
c)
North America and Australia
d)
North America and South America
38.
Which term means the pattern of weather over a long period of time?
a)
climate
b)
density
c)
region
d)
vegetation
39.
What do geographers call an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas?
a)
a city
b)
a region
c)
a landform
d)
a climate zone
40.
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
a)
Absolute location is the exact location of something.
b)
Absolute cannot be identified using lines of latitude or longitude.
c)
Absolute describes where something is compared to another place.
d)
Absolute location describes the characteristics of a place.
41.
The number 3 represents which region?
a)
Rocky Mountain
b)
Northeast
c)
Midwest
d)
Pacific
42.
Which region?
a)
Northeast
b)
Southeast
c)
Southwest
d)
Pacific
43.
Which Region?
a)
Pacific
b)
Southwest
c)
Northwest
d)
Midwest
44.
The tallest mountain in North America is called what?
a)
Mt. Denali
b)
Pike's Peak
c)
Mt. Everest
d)
Mt. St. Helen's
45.
Which of these is NOT a physical region of the U.S.?
a)
Coastal Plains
b)
Rocky Mountains
c)
Himalayas
d)
Interior Plains
46.
The pattern of weather in a place over a period of time
a)
temperature
b)
climate
c)
weather
d)
economy
47.
A natural feature of Earth's surface
a)
natural resources
b)
renewable resources
c)
landform
d)
boundary
48.
Something in the environment that people can use
a)
natural resource
b)
plateau
c)
mesa
d)
desert
49.
Resources that can be replaced
a)
nonrenewable resources
b)
renewable resources
50.
Resources that cannot be replaced or would take a long time to form again
a)
renewable resources
b)
nonrenewable resources
51.
The condition of the air at a certain time and place
a)
weather
b)
humidity
c)
climate
d)
economy
52.
Where was the Mayan civilization located?
a)
The Indian Ocean
b)
Nile River
c)
Euphrates River
d)
Yucatan Peninusla
53.
The Mayans used blood sacrifices as a way to please the gods.
a)
True
b)
False
54.
Why did Mayans develop two different calendars?
a)
Religious festivals, farming
b)
Farming, Sacrifices
c)
Religious festivals, sacrifices
d)
Farming, domestication of animals
55.
Which of the following mathematical concepts did the Mayans develop?
a)
circumference
b)
equations
c)
angles of a triangle
d)
a concept of zero
56.
What was NOT a Mayan city?
a)
Chichen Itza
b)
Tulum
c)
Tikal
d)
Cairo
57.
What was a symbol in Mayan writing called?
a)
hieroglyphics
b)
codex
c)
glyph
d)
obsidian
58.
A type of book written by the Maya that was folded like an accordion is called a ___________.
a)
crypt
b)
codex
c)
glyph
d)
Quetzal
59.
Maya priests developed a system of writing using.....
a)
numbers
b)
letters
c)
hieroglyphics
d)
lines
60.
What agricultural technique was used by the Mayans?
a)
Chinampas
b)
Slash and Burn
c)
Terrace farming
d)
Plantations
61.
What is an archaeologist?
a)
A mapmaker
b)
A scientist who studies past cultures by analyzing their remains.
c)
A scientist who studies current events.
d)
An expert sailor.
62.
The Mayans created very accurate ones to help them keep track of their days and know when to plant and harvest crops.
a)
Temples
b)
Pyramids
c)
Pok-ta-pok
d)
Calendars
63.
Environmental concerns about the Amazon Rainforest
a)
Deforestation
b)
oil related pollution
c)
air pollution
64.
I am the longest mountain chain in the world extending from Venezuela to Argentina
a)
Sierra Madres
b)
Andes
c)
Pyrenees
d)
Urals
65.
My country includes most of the Amazon River and Rainforest
a)
Colombia
b)
Venezuela
c)
Mexico
d)
Brazil
66.
Takes millions of years to form.
a)
hydroelectric
b)
renewable
c)
solar
d)
fossil fuels
67.
Which of the following are natural resources?
a)
water
b)
trees
c)
animals
d)
all of them
68.
Which Canadian resource is used to produce hydroelectricity?
a)
minerals
b)
trees
c)
rivers
d)
pollution
69.
What environmental problem is caused by emissions from power plants, factories, and vehicles?
a)
oil pollution
b)
forests fires
c)
acid rain
d)
soil pollution
70.
Which Canadian resource provides wood pulp?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
forests
c)
rivers
d)
Rocky Mountains
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