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Geography Unit 1-3

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is geography? (select all that apply)

Geography is the study of.....

a)

Places

b)

Earth

c)

People

d)

Space

e)

Environments

2.

What is relative location?

a)

The exact location of something.

b)

The place where you are

c)

The location of a place compared to something else

d)

Where your house is

3.

What is absolute location?

a)

The exact location of something.

b)

The place where you are

c)

The location of a place compared to something else

d)

Where your house is

4.

Can you state the absolute location of a river? Why?

a)

Yes, because you can tell someone where a river is

b)

No

c)

No, because a river stretches over more than one point

d)

Yes

5.

Why do geographers need to use visuals other than maps? (select all that apply)

a)

Because they need to learn about the people

b)

Because they need to learn about the culture

c)

Because people can tell you everything about the place

d)

All the information they need cannot be shown on a map

e)

This is wrong. You can use only maps to learn everything about the place.

6.

Which are examples of human systems? (select all that apply)

a)

Governments

b)

Languages

c)

Religions

d)

Economic systems

e)

Transportation systems

7.

What is each half of Earth called?

a)

Equator

b)

A longitude line

c)

A hemisphere

d)

Prime meridian

8.

What does a key explain? (select all that apply)

a)

Symbols

b)

Shapes

c)

Colors

d)

Lines

e)

All that stuff

9.

What is scale?

a)

Symbols, letters, and shapes on a map

b)

The relationships between distances on maps and Earth

c)

A distance on a map

d)

A distance on Earth

10.

What is orbit?

a)

Repeating path an object in space takes around another object

b)

When Earth blows up

c)

Path Earth takes around sun

d)

When an object in space blows up

11.

What are the parts of our solar system? (select all that apply)

a)

Planets

b)

Anything that blows up

c)

Sun

d)

Asteroid belt

e)

Other bodies that orbit around the sun

12.

What causes our seasons

a)

Earth

b)

The sun

c)

Earth orbiting around the sun on a tilted axis

d)

Earth's tilt

13.

Which are not some of Earth's major climate zones? (select all that apply)

a)

The Sun

b)

Polar

c)

Tropical

d)

Earth

e)

Desert

14.

What are some of Earth's major climate zones? (select all that apply)

a)

High mountain

b)

Humid tempurature

c)

Landscape

d)

Cold tempurature

15.

What is a continent?

a)

A piece of land

b)

Part of Earth's crust above water

c)

Part of Earth

d)

A large, continuous mass of land

16.

Which ones are not a continent? (select all that apply)

a)

Narnia

b)

Europe

c)

U.S.A.

d)

Asia

e)

South America

17.

Which one is not a continent?

a)

Antarctica

b)

North America

c)

Africa

d)

Russia

e)

Australia

18.

Which are factors of Earth's rising population? (select all that apply)

a)

People dying

b)

Strong Birth Rates

c)

Decreasing Birth Rates

d)

Decreasing Death Rates

19.

Which ones are part of culture? (select all that apply)

a)

Behaviors

b)

Beliefs

c)

Genetics

d)

Traits

e)

Place people live

20.

What is an economic system?

a)

How things are sold

b)

How things are destroyed

c)

How a society decides on the ownership and distribution of it's economic resources.

d)

How things are stolen

21.

What are imports?

a)

Imports are goods sold to other countries

b)

Imports are goods that are bought from another country

22.

What are exports?

a)

Exports are goods sold to other countries

b)

Exports are goods that are bought from another country