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Unit 1 Review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is map scale?

a)

A. Distance between objects or places on a map.

b)

Distance between landmasses and water on a map.

c)

Distance between latitude and longitude lines on a map.

d)

Distance on a map in relation to actual distance on Earth.

2.

Major type of ecological community defined primarily by distinctive plant and animal groups.

a)

Coriolis Effect

b)

Biome

c)

Atomosphere

d)

Habitat

3.

The watery areas of Earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water.

a)

Atomosphere

b)

Bioshpere

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Hydrosphere

4.

Where is Earth’s freshwater supply located?

a)

In bays, rivers, and underground

b)

In glaciers, ice caps, lakes, streams, rivers, and underground

c)

In lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, ice caps, and underground

d)

In streams, lakes, rivers, seas, and bays

5.

A solar system consists of

a)

a group of planets revolving around the same sun.

b)

A classification system for different types of suns

c)

A process that measures a sun's physical features

d)

a group of stars such as our sun

6.

A Mercator Projection is what type of projection?

a)

conic projection

b)

cylindrical projection

c)

planar projection

d)

thematic projection

7.

The spread of culture traits, material and non-material from one culture to another

a)

ethnocentrism

b)

equinox

c)

Functional Region

d)

Cultural Diffusion

8.

A central place and the surrounding territory linked to it.

a)

Atmosphere

b)

Functional Region

c)

Relative Location

d)

Absolute Location

9.

A thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.

a)

lithosphere

b)

atomsphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

biosphere

10.

The activities of continental drift and magma flow, which create many of Earth's physical features.

a)

equinox

b)

plate tectonics

c)

relative location

d)

Coriolis effect

11.

The exact position of a place on the Earth's surface?

a)

Relative Location

b)

Absolute Location

12.

Where is Earth's freshwater supply located?

a)

In bays, rivers, and underground

b)

In glaciers, ice caps, lakes, streams, rivers, and underground

c)

In lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, ice caps, and underground

d)

In streams, lakes, rivers, seas, and bays

13.

Earth's lithosphere consists of

a)

All the land and water on Earth's surface

b)

molten rock and toxic gasses

c)

a mix of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen

d)

the crust, continents, and ocean basins

14.

What provides the energy that drives the water cycle.

a)

the weather

b)

the sun

c)

the wind

d)

the oceans

15.

What causes solar radiation to warm Earth?

a)

the Coriolis effect

b)

the lunar effect

c)

the shadow effect

d)

the greenhouse effect

16.

What are the two most densely populated continents today?

a)

Asia and South America

b)

Europe and North America

c)

Asia and Europe

d)

Europe and South America

17.

What is the term for a group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin?

a)

ethnic group

b)

language family

c)

culture region

d)

ethnic enclave

18.

Which internal process leads to earthquakes in places like California?

a)

plating

b)

weathering

c)

faulting

d)

eroding

19.

What was the name of the Earth's surface before the Continental Drift?

a)

Pangea

b)

Euroasia

c)

Pangea Maxima

d)

Afroasia

20.

What continent is C?

a)

South America

b)

Europe

c)

Asia

d)

North America

21.

Which ocean is #3?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Southern Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Arctic Ocean