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Review for Trimester 1 Exam

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is geography?

a)

Study of the Earth.

b)

Study of historical events.

c)

Study of space and planets.

d)

Study of matter and elements.

2.

Which theme of geography tells where a point is on the Earth's surface?

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Movement

d)

Region

3.

What are the two ways describe the location of any place on Earth?

a)

Physical and Human Location

b)

Absolute and Exact Location

c)

Absolute and Relative Location

d)

Relative and Approximate Location

4.

Which theme of geography includes the exchange of people, goods, and ideas around the world?

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

5.

What theme of geography groups places by shared characteristics?

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

6.

What theme looks at the way physical processes and nature can affect people, and vice versa.

a)

Movement

b)

Human Environment Interaction

c)

Place

d)

Region

7.

What theme includes the exchange of people, goods, and ideas around the world?

a)

Region

b)

Human Environment Interaction

c)

Place

d)

Movement

8.

Name the three ways that humans interact with the environment.

a)

Adapt, Modify, Organize

b)

Adapt, Depend, Modernize

c)

Adapt, Depend,Modify

d)

Analyze, Depend, Modify

9.

What theme includes the description of what a location looks like. It is considered a “snapshot” or “postcard” of a location.

a)

Place

b)

Location

c)

Region

d)

Movement

10.

What two characteristics are used to describe a place?

a)

Absolute and Relative Characteristics

b)

Physical and Natural Characteristics

c)

Human and Political Characteristics

d)

Physical and Human Characteristics

11.

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?

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Human Environment Interaction

d)

Region

12.

A series of bullet trains allow people to quickly travel between Chinese cities is an example of which theme of geography?

a)

Movement

b)

Region

c)

Place

d)

Human Environment Interaction

13.

San Antonio is west of Houston, east of El Paso, and south of Dallas is an example of which theme of geography?

a)

Place

b)

Location

c)

Region

d)

Movement

14.

The United States is divided into the following categories: West, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast would be an example of which theme of geography?

a)

Region

b)

Location

c)

Place

d)

Human Environment Interaction

15.

Cancun, Mexico has tropical beaches and wildlife in the jungles is an example of which theme of geography?

a)

Region

b)

Location

c)

Human Environment Interaction

d)

Place

16.

What type of map shows the boundaries of countries, cities, or states?

a)

Thematic Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Physical Map

d)

Robinson Map

17.

What type of map focuses on a specific topic or theme such as religion or language?

a)

Thematic Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Physical Map

d)

Topographic Map

18.

What type of map focuses on the features of the Earth such as mountains, rivers, and lakes?

a)

Thematic Map

b)

Physical Map

c)

Political Map

d)

Climate Map

19.

What type of map does this image represent?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Mercator Map

d)

Thematic Map

20.

What type of map does this picture represent?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Thematic Map

d)

Mercator Map

21.

What type of map does this image represent?

a)

Political Map

b)

Thematic Map

c)

Physical Map

d)

Economic Map

22.

Identify which of the following choices are disadvantages of using the globe.

a)

The globe is round like the Earth.

b)

Globes are not very portable.

c)

Globes only show half of the world at one time.

d)

Globes lack detail making it difficult to study places in great detail.

e)

Globes have no distortion.

23.

True or False: A map projections is any attempt to show the round Earth on a flat map.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

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.

a)

False

b)

True

25.

What term refers to the change in size or shape of the Earth's surface on a flat map?

a)

Distortion

b)

Projection

c)

Orientation

d)

Remote Sensing

26.

What type of map projection is represented in this picture?

a)

Mercator Projection

b)

Azimuthal Projection

c)

Physical Map Projection

d)

Interrupted Projection

27.

What type of map projection does this map represent?

a)

Mercator Map Projection

b)

Robinson Map Projection

c)

Azimuthal Map Projection

d)

Interrupted Map Projection

28.

What type of map projection does this picture represent?

a)

Interrupted Projection

b)

Physical Map Projection

c)

Mercator Projection

d)

Robinson Projection

29.

What type of map projection does this map represent?

a)

Robinson Projection

b)

Mercator Projection

c)

Interrupted Projection

d)

Azimuthal Projection

30.

What is GPS?

a)

A system of 30 satellites that orbit the Earth and help pinpoint locations on the Earth's surface.

b)

A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.

c)

A system to gather information from far away.

31.

What is GIS?

a)

A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.

b)

A system of Earth orbiting satellites used to pinpoint locations on the Earth's surface.

c)

Getting information from far away.

d)

Pictures taken at high altitudes from an aircraft or satellite.

32.

What is remote sensing?

a)

A system of 30 satellites that orbit the Earth and send out radio signals.

b)

A system used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information.

c)

Getting information from far away.

d)

Scientific discoveries that are applied to practical use.

33.

A geographer would like to find the absolute location of various places on the Earth's surface? What type of technology would they use?

a)

GPS

b)

GIS

c)

Remote Sensing

34.

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?

a)

GPS

b)

GIS

c)

Remote Sensing

35.

How do geographers use information from remote sensing?

a)

Geographers can compare information from one year to another.

b)

Geographers can look for changes or problems.

c)

Geographers can identify how to fix problems.

36.

Which of the TOADS tells you what the subject of the map is?

a)

Orientation

b)

Title

c)

Author

d)

Symbols/Scale

37.

The compass rose on a map is represented by which one of the TOADS?

a)

Orientation

b)

Title

c)

Symbols/Scale

d)

Date

38.

Which of the TOADS tells the reader who created the map?

a)

Title

b)

Date

c)

Author

d)

Symbols/Scale

39.

Which of the TOADS on a map tells the reader when the map was created?

a)

Title

b)

Date

c)

Author

d)

Orientation

40.

Which of the TOADS on a map is used to represent real objects, distances, or places?

a)

Symbols/Scale

b)

Title

c)

Orientation

d)

Date