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Unit 1: Physical Geography 6 Weeks Test

Total questions: 61

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments?

a)

Geography

b)

Geometry

c)

Philosophy

d)

Environment

2.

What is the location of one place compared to another place?

a)

Absolute Location

b)

Latitude

c)

Longitude

d)

Relative Location

3.

What is the exact location of something?

a)

Absolute Location

b)

Relative Location

c)

Longitude

d)

Latitude

4.

What are the lines on a map that run east to west?

a)

Latitude

b)

Longitude

c)

Compass Rose

d)

Absolute Location

5.

What are the lines on a map that run north to south?

a)

Absolute Location

b)

Latitude

c)

Longitude

d)

Compass Rose

6.

What is the line of latitude that runs around the middle of Earth?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Latitude

c)

Equator

d)

Hemisphere

7.

What is the starting point for measuring longitude?

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Longitude

d)

Hemisphere

8.

What is a group of places that are close to one another and that share some characteristics?

a)

Hemisphere

b)

Region

c)

Continent

d)

Environment

9.

What is a natural feature found on land?

a)

Environment

b)

Region

c)

Landform

d)

Absolute Location

10.

What is the average weather in an area over a long period of time known as?

a)

Environment

b)

Landform

c)

Climate

d)

Geography

11.

What is each half of Earth?

a)

Hemisphere

b)

Continent

c)

Equator

d)

Prime Meridian

12.

What is the feature on a map that shows direction?

a)

Title

b)

Legend

c)

Compass Rose

d)

Scale

13.

What is the measurement of how much above or below sea level a place is?

a)

Elevation

b)

Erosion

c)

Landform

d)

Continent

14.

What is a map that shows specialized information?

a)

Political Map

b)

Physical Map

c)

Geography

d)

Thematic Map

15.

What is a large, unbroken mass of land?

a)

Continent

b)

Landform

c)

Earthquake

d)

Elevation

16.

What is one of the 16 pieces of Earth’s crust?

a)

Continent

b)

Hemisphere

c)

Tectonic Plates

d)

Landform

17.

What is the long, narrow band of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Ring of Fire

b)

Landform

c)

Continent

d)

Tectonic Plates

18.

What is an event in which the ground shakes or trembles, brought about by the collision of tectonic plates?

a)

Tsunami

b)

Earthquake

c)

Erosion

d)

Ring of Fire

19.

What is the process by which weathered bits of rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind, or ice?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Erosion

c)

Tsunami

d)

Ring of Fire

20.

Every place has unique physical characteristics, some examples are:

a)

Dams, bridges and highways

b)

Rivers, deserts, mountains

c)

languages, buildings, people

21.

a description of the physical and human characteristics of a location or area

a)

location

b)

place

c)

longitude

d)

region

22.

an exact point on the earth’s surface (absolute and relative location)

a)

coordinates

b)

region

c)

place

d)

location

23.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Plate
24.

Which ocean in the world is surrounded by plate boundaries known as the "Ring of Fire"

a)

Atlantic

b)

Indian

c)

Arctic

d)

Pacific

25.
What is climate?
a)
What's happening in space at a time and place.
b)
What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place
c)
The average weather over many years
d)
The average temperature over many years.
26.
What is weather?
a)
What's happening in space at a time and place.
b)
What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place.
c)
The average weather over many years
d)
The average temperature over many years.
27.
Antarctica is cold all the time. What is it's climate?
a)
Tropical
b)
Polar
c)
Arid/Dry
d)
Temperate
28.

The seasons are caused by___________?

a)

The tilt of Earth on its axis, and the yearly revolution around the sun

b)

Tropical Storms

c)

Changes in the moon

d)

The Earth's rotation on its axis

29.
Which of the following does NOT have an affect on a region's climate?
a)
Large bodies of water
b)
Latitude
c)
Mountains
d)
Longitude
30.
An adaptation is _____________.
a)
the environment that an organism lives in
b)
the affect of climate on an organism
c)
not important for the survival of an organism
d)
any structure or behavior that helps and organism survive 
31.
The biggest factor in determining climate is?
a)
elevation
b)
an ocean
c)
latitude
d)
mountain
32.
Climates are classified according to which two major factors?
a)
elevation & precipitation
b)
latitude & temperature
c)
elevation & latitude
d)
precipitation & temperature
33.

biome

a)

the height of land above sea level

b)

a horizontal movement of ocean water caused by wind that occurs near the ocean's surface

c)

a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animals

d)

always have higher temperatures than the surrounding countryside

34.
Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day
a)
Climate
b)
Weather
35.
What climate zone is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
a)
Tropics
b)
Temperate
c)
Polar
36.

This picture shows...

a)

Convectional rain

b)

Orographic effect

c)

Frontal rain

37.

This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts.

a)

Hydrosphere

b)

Biosphere

c)

Atmosphere

d)

Geosphere/Lithosphere

38.
This sphere is composed of all the living things 
a)
Hydrosphere 
b)
Biosphere 
c)
Atmosphere 
d)
Geosphere 
39.

What is weathering?

a)

The movement of sediment

b)

The breaking of sediment

c)

The dropping of sediment

40.

What is erosion?

a)

The movement of sediment

b)

The breaking of sediment

c)

The dropping of sediment

41.

Natural features of the Earth's Surface

a)

Climates

b)

physical features

c)

Deserts

d)

Latitude Lines

42.
Large area of flat land with few trees
a)
Coast
b)
Desert
c)
Hurricane
d)
Plain
43.
What is this symbol?
a)
scale
b)
key
c)
compass rose
d)
map
44.
What is another name for a legend?
a)
key
b)
map
c)
title
d)
hero
45.

a group of places that have physical features or human characteristics, or both in common

a)

culture traits

b)

region

c)

ocean

46.
What is the name of this line at 0 degrees latitude?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Equator
c)
North Pole
d)
South Pole
47.

A triangular area of land formed from deposits of soil at the mouth of a river is

a)

oasis

b)

delta

c)

isthmus

48.

a narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas of land, "land bridge" is

a)

isthmus

b)

peninsula

c)

strait

49.

a body of water that is partly enclosed by land but is larger than a bay is

a)

peninsula

b)

desert

c)

gulf

50.
Is Asia North or South of the Equator?
a)
North
b)
South
51.
The Equator divides Earth into which two hemispheres
a)
Northern and Western
b)
Northern and Southern
c)
Eastern and Western
d)
Southern and Western
52.

a flat drawing of all or part of the earth’s surface

a)

political map

b)

map

c)

physical map

d)

intermediate directions

53.

Imaginary east-west circles around the earth that run parallel to the Equator

a)

intermediate directions

b)

Equator

c)

Prime Meridian

d)

latitude lines

54.

a kind of map that shows the names and boundaries of countries, location of cities, and other human made features of a place

a)

political map

b)

physical map

c)

Prime Meridian

d)

western hemisphere

55.

another name for a mapmaker

a)

map key

b)

cardinal directions

c)

scale bar

d)

cartographer

56.

are also called meridians

a)

Equator

b)

map key

c)

eastern hemisphere

d)

longitude lines

57.

explains the lines, symbols, and colors used on a map

a)

map key

b)

map

c)

cartographer

d)

cardinal directions

58.

everything east of the Prime Meridian

a)

eastern hemisphere

b)

western hemisphere

c)

southern hemisphere

d)

northern hemisphere

59.

everything south of the equator

a)

eastern hemisphere

b)

southern hemisphere

c)

northern hemisphere

d)

western hemisphere

60.

a measuring line that helps you figure out distances on a map

a)

cartographer

b)

map key

c)

cardinal directions

d)

scale bar

61.

north, south, east, west

a)

cardinal directions

b)

intermediate directions

c)

latitude lines

d)

longitude lines

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