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WorksheetsGeography Skills
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What does the relative location of a place tell you?
The address of a place
Where it is located on map
Where a place is compared to another place
The coordinates of a place
All of the following oceans touch Africa except?
Arctic
Southern
Indian
Atlantic
Which theme of geography describes an area with unique characteristics?
Location
Place
Movement
Region
Which two continents are located entirely in the eastern hemisphere?
Africa and South America
North America and South America
Asia and Australia
Europe and Antarctica
The equator is an imaginary line that runs?
from the north pole to the south pole
from east to west
from the prime meridian to the international date line
parallel to the arctic circle
What is the deeper part of a river or harbor called?
delta
isthmus
channel
bay
A group of closely scattered islands is called a?
glacier
valley
archipelago
strait
Which of the following would you not find near land?
mountain
valley
plateau
channel
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a peninsula?
surrounded by water on three sides
long, narrow portion of land
extends out in the water
completely surrounded by water
When a river empties deposits of silt and soil onto a triangular area of land, what formation do we call that?
channel
delta
isthmus
plateau
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land is called a what?
strait
isthmus
valley
delta
Geographers use what to find the absolute location of a place?
longitude and latitude coordinates
compass rose
landmark
map key
when groups of places have things in common such a food and religion we call that group a?
place
location
region
movement
Which of the following is an example of human -environment interaction?
farming the land
studying a map
finding the absolute location of a place
moving goods from one place to another
All of the following are true for longitude and latitude lines except?
latitude lines run east and west
longitude lines run east to west
the prime meridian runs from the north pole to the south pole
latitude lines divide the world into the northern and southern hemispheres
