WorksheetsAmericas
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 56mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which physical feature stretches 4,500 miles along the west coast of South America?
a)
Sierra Madre Mountains
b)
Atacama Desert
c)
Amazon River
d)
Andes Mountains
2.
Name river number 3 (click here to see the map)
a)
Colorado River
b)
Ohio River
c)
Rio Grande
d)
Mississippi River
3.
What is multiculturalism?
a)
Many different cultures in one society
b)
Only one culture represented in a society
c)
Racism
4.
What is migration?
a)
providing a service
b)
movement from one place to another
c)
having lots of different types of people
5.
Which major U.S. River boarders Texas from Mexico?
a)
Hudson
b)
Ohio
c)
Rio Grande
d)
Red River
6.
The mouth of the Mississippi River forms a ______________.
a)
delta
b)
stream
c)
circle
d)
mountain
7.
On which of the following regions would you most likely find good land for grazing animals such at cattle?
a)
Atlantic Coastal Plain
b)
Great Plains
c)
Canadian Shield
d)
Rocky Mountains
8.
What large mountain range is pictured here?
a)
Catskill Moutains
b)
Rocky Moutanins
c)
Appalachian Mountains
9.
Geography is the study of the_________, it's land forms, features and inhabitants.
a)
people
b)
life
c)
water
d)
Earth
10.
A physical map may include such features as what?
a)
natural resources
b)
Economic activity
c)
landforms and bodies of water
d)
population and density
11.
How do you calculate population density?
a)
add the number of people to its land area
b)
Divide the number of people by it's land area
c)
multiply the number of people per square mile by its land area
d)
divide the number of people by the number of its dwellings
12.
A group of places that share a common feature is a
a)
climate
b)
region
c)
location
d)
culture
13.
When land is used for subsistence farming
a)
farmers grow only enough crop to feed their own family
b)
farmers must move around often to find food and water for their animals
c)
farmers raise crop and animals to sell
d)
farms are owned by multinational corporations
14.
The ____________ are the largest mountain system in North American.
a)
Rocky Mountains
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Nova Scotia Mountains
d)
Lawerence Mountains
15.
Which of the following is an element of culture?
a)
landforms
b)
latitude
c)
geography
d)
sports
16.
What type of map is this?
a)
Population
b)
Physical
c)
Political
d)
Climate
17.
What country(ies) borders the United States?
a)
Canada and Mexico
b)
New Mexico
c)
Mexico
d)
Canada
18.
What is a continent?
a)
a dispute; a discussion involving opposing views
b)
the result of water vapor changing to a liquid or a solid state
c)
A large, unbroken mass of land
d)
a region of parallel mountain chains
19.
What are the cardinal directions?
a)
North, South, East, West
b)
North, Northeast, South, Southeast
c)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
d)
West, Southwest, East, Southeast
20.
What city is located at 87º W. lat, 42º N. long. ? (If you click on the map, the next will disappear so that it is easier to read).
a)
Chicago
b)
Detroit
c)
St. Louis
d)
Atlanta
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