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Worksheets6th grade Social Studies Midterm
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
The imaginary lines that circle around the globe are called:
Tropics
Rotation
Lines of Latitude
Lines of Longitude
This line represents the _____________.
Equator
Arctic Circle
Tropic of Capricorn
Prime Meridian
All of the surroundings and conditions that affect living things, such as water, soil, and air:
projection
environment
compass rose
revolution
This line represents the ____________.
Tropic of Cancer
Arctic Circle
Equator
Prime Meridian
One Revolution of the Earth is equal to ___________.
a little more than a year
a day
the seasons
the weather
This image represents a __________________.
key
grid
scale
compass rose
A geographer called _________________ created a flat map to help sailors navigate long journeys around the globe.
Arthur Robinson
Robinson Crusoe
Gerhardus Mercator
Michael Collins
What is geography?
The study of the Earth
The study of the Landforms
The study of the Maps
The study of the Seasons
A map key is used to ______________.
help locate places on the map using lines of latitude and longitude.
indicate landmarks, such as roads, towns, important places by using symbols.
compare the size of an area on a map with the area´s actual size.
tell which direction is north, south, east, and west.
The Prime Meridian separates the _________ hemispheres.
Northern and Southern
Eastern and Western
The five themes of Geography are:
(You must write them in the order using¨MR HELP¨)
DO NOT use capital letters.
(a)
People that study the Earth are called:
cartographers
arqueologists
geographers
navigators
A change in the accuracy of a maps shapes and distances is:
a scale
a projection
a cardinal direction
a distortion
An Earth´s rotation results in ______________.
a year
winter and spring
day and night
summer and fall
The theme of ____________ stresses how people affect their surroundings, and how it affects them.
location
region
place
human-environment interaction
