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Geography CUA 1 Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where would you find an ice cap vegetation zone on a mountain?

a)

Tierra Helada

b)

Tierra fria

c)

Tierra templada

d)

Tierra Caliente

2.

Where does terracing, a farming method, make it possible to raise crops?

a)

above the snow line

b)

on the hillsides

c)

in tropical lowlands

d)

below rainforest canopies

3.

What shows the average temperature and precipitation in a place over a year?

a)

a climagraph

b)

a map legend

c)

a physical map

4.

A synonym for map legend is a map

a)

guide

b)

grid

c)

key

5.

A city that has population of 1-4 million people would be called...

a)

urban

b)

rural

c)

a country

6.

Temperate grassland and Broad Leaf evergreen forest are

a)

physical features

b)

climate zones

c)

vegetation zones

7.

Tropical Wet and Dry and Tundra are

a)

Physical features

b)

Climate Zones

c)

Vegetation Zones

8.

Plains and Plateaus are

a)

landforms

b)

bodies of water

c)

forms of vegetation

9.

The precise point on Earth where a particular place can be found is called its

a)

relative location

b)

distortion

c)

absolute location

10.

What does the economic activity map of a country show?

a)

where people live

b)

what kind of climate it has

c)

how its people make a living

11.

What are coal, iron, uranium and petroleum?

a)

land uses

b)

vegetation zones

c)

resources

12.

Which term means the pattern of weather over a long period of time?

a)

climate

b)

density

c)

region

13.

Which of the following will you find on a map that shows physical features?

a)

business

b)

landforms

c)

populations

14.

Which of the following is an intermediate direction?

a)

north

b)

southwest

c)

compass rose

15.

Which of the following is a temperate zone?

a)

the area between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole

b)

the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

c)

the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle

16.

More than half of the land in AFrica is used for subsistence, in which

a)

farmers grow enough to feed just their family

b)

farmers grow enough to sell n the market and not eat their own crop

c)

they do not grow crops

17.

What could you use to show patterns of land use?

a)

population density

b)

climagraph

c)

economic activity

18.

What kind of housing would you expect to find most often in an area with a very high population?

a)

houses surrounded by farm fields

b)

small apartments in skyscrapers

c)

individual homes spaced miles apart

19.

What is the effect of Earth's tilt?

a)

it affects that amount of sunlight and the seasons

b)

the amount of precipitation

c)

it creates temporary temperature extremes

20.

What does a map's scale compare?

a)

direction on a map with direction on Earth

b)

location on a map with location on a globe

c)

distance on a map with distance on Earth

21.

What do geographers use to indicate the absolute location on any place on Earth?

a)

a global grid

b)

a map legend

c)

a map scale

22.

What does the relative location of a place tell you?

a)

the longitude and latitude of a place

b)

which symbol shows a place on a map

c)

where a place is compared to another place

23.

The changes in shape, size, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat map take place because..

a)

tilt

b)

distortion

c)

scale

24.

Which letter labels the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

K

b)

B

c)

J

d)

D

25.

Which letter labels the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

K

b)

B

c)

J

d)

D

26.

Which letter labels Africa?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

H

27.

Which letter labels North America?

a)

I

b)

A

c)

D

d)

G

28.

Which letter labels the Indian Ocean?

a)

L

b)

B

c)

C

d)

F

29.

Which letter labels South America?

a)

I

b)

F

c)

G

d)

H

30.

Which letter labels Europe?

a)

A

b)

K

c)

E

d)

L

31.

Which letter labels the Arctic Ocean?

a)

F

b)

A

c)

D

d)

C

32.

Which letter labels Asia?

a)

G

b)

D

c)

J

d)

I

33.

Which letter labels the Pacific Ocean?

a)

C

b)

B

c)

K

d)

F

34.

Which letter labels Australia?

a)

D

b)

H

c)

I

d)

C

35.

Which letter labels the Southern Ocean?

a)

A

b)

E

c)

F

d)

J

36.

Which letter labels Antarctica?

a)

L

b)

H

c)

C

d)

K