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WorksheetsGeography Unit Vocab/Term Test
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Sacajawea is what important figure...
A Native American woman who founded the Louisiana territories.
A Native American woman who deciphered maps and guided men to the Northwest territories.
A Native American woman who was really good in aspects of sports.
A Native American woman who deciphered codes for the military.
Who is Jim Thorpe...
A Native American man that was an All American 20th Century athlete.
A Native American code breaker who deciphered code for America.
A Native American man who helped read maps for Lewis and Clark.
A famous cartographer who discovered the Earth wasn’t flat.
What is a Navajo code talker?
A group of Native Americans who lead Lewis and Clark to the Northwest.
A group of men who discovered the Earth was not flat.
A group of men that founded American football and participated in the Olympic Games.
A group of men that made Navajo messages for American military and helped win World War II.
Insurrection is...
A group of people coming to protest
A group of people forming an alliance
A group of people fighting the alliance
A group of people uprising against the government violently
Spacial Awareness is...
The understanding of space around you and its uses
The understanding of people around you and their meaning
The want for people around you to understand their meaning
The way objects are placed around you
Redlining is...
The way people are moved about in a town
The lines on a map that show parallel lines
The discriminatory real estate practices that segregated cities in America.
The racist forms of separation between people in America
The Equator is...
A line that is really warm
A line on the map that lets you know you are south
The imaginary line on a map that indicates the 0 degrees mark (latitude), found in Brazil
The line the map that is 0 degrees longitude
The Prime Meridian is...
A line that indicates you are north.
A line on a map that is designated 0 degrees longitude and passes through the Royal Observatory Greenwich
A line that is 0 degrees latitude and passes through Brazil
A line that indicates your are south
Absolute location is...
The exact location of a place found by coordinates.
The Prime Meridian
The location of a red line
a cartographer
How many Hemispheres are there?
3
2
5
4
Which is an example of relative location?
-10 degrees north and 50 degrees south
drive north bound on Broad Street and turn right at the light
Choose the thing(s) that should not be included in a map.
Key
Compass rose
Title
Answer key
Scale
A projection is...
How you see yourself in the world
Used to transfer locations from the globe to a flat map
A line used to show the Equator
A line used to show the Prime Meridian
Geographic information systems (GIS) is...
A data point on Map
A computer system that stores and organizes geographic data
A system of maps that allow you to layer
A skill that Cartographers have
Geography is...
The study of Mars
The study of solar systems
The study of viruses
The study of the Earth
Why are all maps flawed?
Because they all have a distortion or scale issue (not round)
Because they are all without titles
They can’t compare to A GPS
They aren’t digital
