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WG. 1-2 SOL Review - Sellers

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of map do you use to get to school in the morning?

a)

Climate map

b)

Physical map

c)

Mental map

d)

Political map

2.

What type of map would show countries and their borders?

a)

Population map

b)

Political map

c)

Resource map

d)

Physical map

3.

What type of map would show features such as changes in elevation, topography, and lakes?

a)

Climate map

b)

Resource map

c)

Precipitation map

d)

Physical map

4.

What type of map would show the average rainfall across the United States?

a)

Physical map

b)

Mental map

c)

Precipitation map

d)

Population Density map

5.

Which of the following are ways that maps show information?

a)

Contours

b)

Boundries

c)

Symbols

d)

Colors

6.

This image is an example of what type of map

a)

Political map

b)

Physical map

c)

Ethnicity map

d)

Language map

7.

This image is an example of what type of map?

a)

Political map

b)

Physical map

c)

Ethnicity map

d)

Language map

8.

What piece of information would a population map show?

a)

Where rivers are located

b)

The borders of a country

c)

What languages people speak

d)

How many people live in a given area

9.

Mental maps used lines of latitude and longitude.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Contour lines on a map depict changes in elevation.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

If you wanted to see a map of the border between Pakistan and India you would look for a physical map.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Some maps can show multiple kinds of information, like a map that shows both borders and mountains.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Which of these options is an example of relative location?

a)

The gas station is about a mile past the supermarket

b)

The gas station is located at (37 N, 80 W)

c)

The gas station is 2.34 miles due east of here

d)

The gas station is located at 347 ft. above sea level

14.

Which of these options is an example of absolute location?

a)

The house is just around the corner

b)

The house is 12 miles down the road

c)

The house is located at (28.27 S, 25.45 W)

d)

The house is just on the left after the third stop sign

15.

Which country is most likely located at coordinates (7 S, 35 E)?

a)

Uzbekistan

b)

Tanzania

c)

United States

d)

Paraguay

16.

This piece of technology has created a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data from maps and/or databases?

a)

Compass rose

b)

GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

c)

Scale

d)

Contour maps

17.

This map was created during the time period of Columbus. Based on this map, sailing West from Europe, where should Columbus ended up at by the end of his exploration

a)

Africa

b)

North America

c)

Asia

d)

South America

18.

Based on this world map, what tool can be used to find orientation?

a)

Compass Rose

b)

Scale

c)

Equator

d)

Longitudinal Lines

19.

Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on what Asian island?

a)

Bali

b)

New Guinea

c)

Taiwan

d)

Hokkaido

20.

Palestine is a geographical and historical region located in the Middle East.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

This map shows which Middle Eastern features?

a)

West Bank

b)

Gaza Strip

c)

Kashmir

d)

Korea

22.

Based on the location, this body of water has two names given to it by the people of Iran and Saudi Arabia...What are those two names?

a)

Bay of Bengal

b)

Arabian Sea

c)

Red Sea

d)

Persian Gulf

23.

This country was divided into two separate nations during the Cold War due to the US and Soviet Union fighting over the spread of Communism?

a)

Vietnam

b)

China

c)

Korea

d)

Russia

24.

This map shows a disputed body of water that is claimed by Japan, China, and the Koreas. What does China refer to this body of water as?

a)

Sea of Japan

b)

Dead Sea

c)

Caspian Sea

d)

East Sea

25.

What European country controlled the African country of Western Sahara before it gained its Independence in 1975?

a)

Portugal

b)

Germany

c)

France

d)

Spain