WorksheetsGeography Unit 1-3
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is geography? (select all that apply)
Geography is the study of.....
Places
Earth
People
Space
Environments
What is relative location?
The exact location of something.
The place where you are
The location of a place compared to something else
Where your house is
What is absolute location?
The exact location of something.
The place where you are
The location of a place compared to something else
Where your house is
Can you state the absolute location of a river? Why?
Yes, because you can tell someone where a river is
No
No, because a river stretches over more than one point
Yes
Why do geographers need to use visuals other than maps? (select all that apply)
Because they need to learn about the people
Because they need to learn about the culture
Because people can tell you everything about the place
All the information they need cannot be shown on a map
This is wrong. You can use only maps to learn everything about the place.
Which are examples of human systems? (select all that apply)
Governments
Languages
Religions
Economic systems
Transportation systems
What is each half of Earth called?
Equator
A longitude line
A hemisphere
Prime meridian
What does a key explain? (select all that apply)
Symbols
Shapes
Colors
Lines
All that stuff
What is scale?
Symbols, letters, and shapes on a map
The relationships between distances on maps and Earth
A distance on a map
A distance on Earth
What is orbit?
Repeating path an object in space takes around another object
When Earth blows up
Path Earth takes around sun
When an object in space blows up
What are the parts of our solar system? (select all that apply)
Planets
Anything that blows up
Sun
Asteroid belt
Other bodies that orbit around the sun
What causes our seasons
Earth
The sun
Earth orbiting around the sun on a tilted axis
Earth's tilt
Which are not some of Earth's major climate zones? (select all that apply)
The Sun
Polar
Tropical
Earth
Desert
What are some of Earth's major climate zones? (select all that apply)
High mountain
Humid tempurature
Landscape
Cold tempurature
What is a continent?
A piece of land
Part of Earth's crust above water
Part of Earth
A large, continuous mass of land
Which ones are not a continent? (select all that apply)
Narnia
Europe
U.S.A.
Asia
South America
Which one is not a continent?
Antarctica
North America
Africa
Russia
Australia
Which are factors of Earth's rising population? (select all that apply)
People dying
Strong Birth Rates
Decreasing Birth Rates
Decreasing Death Rates
Which ones are part of culture? (select all that apply)
Behaviors
Beliefs
Genetics
Traits
Place people live
What is an economic system?
How things are sold
How things are destroyed
How a society decides on the ownership and distribution of it's economic resources.
How things are stolen
What are imports?
Imports are goods sold to other countries
Imports are goods that are bought from another country
What are exports?
Exports are goods sold to other countries
Exports are goods that are bought from another country
