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WorksheetsReview for Trimester 1 Exam
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is geography?
Study of the Earth.
Study of historical events.
Study of space and planets.
Study of matter and elements.
Which theme of geography tells where a point is on the Earth's surface?
Location
Place
Movement
Region
What are the two ways describe the location of any place on Earth?
Physical and Human Location
Absolute and Exact Location
Absolute and Relative Location
Relative and Approximate Location
Which theme of geography includes the exchange of people, goods, and ideas around the world?
Location
Place
Region
Movement
What theme of geography groups places by shared characteristics?
Location
Place
Region
Movement
What theme looks at the way physical processes and nature can affect people, and vice versa.
Movement
Human Environment Interaction
Place
Region
What theme includes the exchange of people, goods, and ideas around the world?
Region
Human Environment Interaction
Place
Movement
Name the three ways that humans interact with the environment.
Adapt, Modify, Organize
Adapt, Depend, Modernize
Adapt, Depend,Modify
Analyze, Depend, Modify
What theme includes the description of what a location looks like. It is considered a “snapshot” or “postcard” of a location.
Place
Location
Region
Movement
What two characteristics are used to describe a place?
Absolute and Relative Characteristics
Physical and Natural Characteristics
Human and Political Characteristics
Physical and Human Characteristics
Many people in Kansas have storm cellars to shelter in because of all the tornadoes that form there would be an example of which theme of geography?
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
Region
A series of bullet trains allow people to quickly travel between Chinese cities is an example of which theme of geography?
Movement
Region
Place
Human Environment Interaction
San Antonio is west of Houston, east of El Paso, and south of Dallas is an example of which theme of geography?
Place
Location
Region
Movement
The United States is divided into the following categories: West, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast would be an example of which theme of geography?
Region
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
Cancun, Mexico has tropical beaches and wildlife in the jungles is an example of which theme of geography?
Region
Location
Human Environment Interaction
Place
What type of map shows the boundaries of countries, cities, or states?
Thematic Map
Political Map
Physical Map
Robinson Map
What type of map focuses on a specific topic or theme such as religion or language?
Thematic Map
Political Map
Physical Map
Topographic Map
What type of map focuses on the features of the Earth such as mountains, rivers, and lakes?
Thematic Map
Physical Map
Political Map
Climate Map
What type of map does this image represent?
Physical Map
Political Map
Mercator Map
Thematic Map
What type of map does this picture represent?
Physical Map
Political Map
Thematic Map
Mercator Map
What type of map does this image represent?
Political Map
Thematic Map
Physical Map
Economic Map
Identify which of the following choices are disadvantages of using the globe.
The globe is round like the Earth.
Globes are not very portable.
Globes only show half of the world at one time.
Globes lack detail making it difficult to study places in great detail.
Globes have no distortion.
True or False: A map projections is any attempt to show the round Earth on a flat map.
True
False
True or False: All maps are distorted because you can't take something round like the Earth and project it onto a flat surface without some changes in accuracy.
False
True
What term refers to the change in size or shape of the Earth's surface on a flat map?
Distortion
Projection
Orientation
Remote Sensing
What type of map projection is represented in this picture?
Mercator Projection
Azimuthal Projection
Physical Map Projection
Interrupted Projection
What type of map projection does this map represent?
Mercator Map Projection
Robinson Map Projection
Azimuthal Map Projection
Interrupted Map Projection
What type of map projection does this picture represent?
Interrupted Projection
Physical Map Projection
Mercator Projection
Robinson Projection
What type of map projection does this map represent?
Robinson Projection
Mercator Projection
Interrupted Projection
Azimuthal Projection
What is GPS?
A system of 30 satellites that orbit the Earth and help pinpoint locations on the Earth's surface.
A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.
A system to gather information from far away.
What is GIS?
A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.
A system of Earth orbiting satellites used to pinpoint locations on the Earth's surface.
Getting information from far away.
Pictures taken at high altitudes from an aircraft or satellite.
What is remote sensing?
A system of 30 satellites that orbit the Earth and send out radio signals.
A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.
Getting information from far away.
Scientific discoveries that are applied to practical use.
A geographer would like to find the absolute location of various places on the Earth's surface? What type of technology would they use?
GPS
GIS
Remote Sensing
Culvers would like to identify where the best location to put a new restaurant would be? What type of geospatial technology would help them make this decision?
GPS
GIS
Remote Sensing
How do geographers use information from remote sensing?
Geographers can compare information from one year to another.
Geographers can look for changes or problems.
Geographers can identify how to fix problems.
Which of the TOADS tells you what the subject of the map is?
Orientation
Title
Author
Symbols/Scale
The compass rose on a map is represented by which one of the TOADS?
Orientation
Title
Symbols/Scale
Date
Which of the TOADS tells the reader who created the map?
Title
Date
Author
Symbols/Scale
Which of the TOADS on a map tells the reader when the map was created?
Title
Date
Author
Orientation
Which of the TOADS on a map is used to represent real objects, distances, or places?
Symbols/Scale
Title
Orientation
Date
