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Geography Unit Vocab/Term Test

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sacajawea is what important figure...

a)

A Native American woman who founded the Louisiana territories.

b)

A Native American woman who deciphered maps and guided men to the Northwest territories.

c)

A Native American woman who was really good in aspects of sports.

d)

A Native American woman who deciphered codes for the military.

2.

Who is Jim Thorpe...

a)

A Native American man that was an All American 20th Century athlete.

b)

A Native American code breaker who deciphered code for America.

c)

A Native American man who helped read maps for Lewis and Clark.

d)

A famous cartographer who discovered the Earth wasn’t flat.

3.

What is a Navajo code talker?

a)

A group of Native Americans who lead Lewis and Clark to the Northwest.

b)

A group of men who discovered the Earth was not flat.

c)

A group of men that founded American football and participated in the Olympic Games.

d)

A group of men that made Navajo messages for American military and helped win World War II.

4.

Insurrection is...

a)

A group of people coming to protest

b)

A group of people forming an alliance

c)

A group of people fighting the alliance

d)

A group of people uprising against the government violently

5.

Spacial Awareness is...

a)

The understanding of space around you and its uses

b)

The understanding of people around you and their meaning

c)

The want for people around you to understand their meaning

d)

The way objects are placed around you

6.

Redlining is...

a)

The way people are moved about in a town

b)

The lines on a map that show parallel lines

c)

The discriminatory real estate practices that segregated cities in America.

d)

The racist forms of separation between people in America

7.

The Equator is...

a)

A line that is really warm

b)

A line on the map that lets you know you are south

c)

The imaginary line on a map that indicates the 0 degrees mark (latitude), found in Brazil

d)

The line the map that is 0 degrees longitude

8.

The Prime Meridian is...

a)

A line that indicates you are north.

b)

A line on a map that is designated 0 degrees longitude and passes through the Royal Observatory Greenwich

c)

A line that is 0 degrees latitude and passes through Brazil

d)

A line that indicates your are south

9.

Absolute location is...

a)

The exact location of a place found by coordinates.

b)

The Prime Meridian

c)

The location of a red line

d)

a cartographer

10.

How many Hemispheres are there?

a)

3

b)

2

c)

5

d)

4

11.

Which is an example of relative location?

a)

-10 degrees north and 50 degrees south

b)

drive north bound on Broad Street and turn right at the light

12.

Choose the thing(s) that should not be included in a map.

a)

Key

b)

Compass rose

c)

Title

d)

Answer key

e)

Scale

13.

A projection is...

a)

How you see yourself in the world

b)

Used to transfer locations from the globe to a flat map

c)

A line used to show the Equator

d)

A line used to show the Prime Meridian

14.

Geographic information systems (GIS) is...

a)

A data point on Map

b)

A computer system that stores and organizes geographic data

c)

A system of maps that allow you to layer

d)

A skill that Cartographers have

15.

Geography is...

a)

The study of Mars

b)

The study of solar systems

c)

The study of viruses

d)

The study of the Earth

16.

Why are all maps flawed?

a)

Because they all have a distortion or scale issue (not round)

b)

Because they are all without titles

c)

They can’t compare to A GPS

d)

They aren’t digital