WorksheetsSocial Studies Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
When we try to read a map or to create it, first all we have to:
Select a spot with good lighting
Choose a striking title
Locate the cardinal points
Stretch the parchment and determine the margins
Our planet is made up of 3 main layers one of which is precisely the lithosphere on which:
All fish and marine animals live
It is the layer of magma of the center of the planet
Contains all the gases necessary for life in addition to the Ozone layer
Refers to all lands emerging from the sea such as islands, islets, and continental shelves
Key parts of the maps are:
QR Code - Editorial - Bibliographic reference
Toponyms - Scale - Wind rose
Colors - Title - Cartographer
Borders - Watermark - Printing time
70% of the outer layer of the earth is covered by water, of this only between 7 and 9% is potable, and we can find it in lakes, lagoons, rivers, glaciers etc. These geographical formations can be grouped in:
Hydrosphere
Nucleus
Topsoil
Atmosphere
The remaining 30% of the Earth’s surface consists of all the space that surrounds us and that if we take these large territories of land we can talk about 6 or more continents depending on the criteria to select them, some of them are:
Ukraine - Poland - Russia
Cundibuyacense Region - Atlantic - Andean
Asia - Africa - Oceania
North America - South America - Central America
Spring, Summer, Autumn and winter are the seasons that are generated throughout the year on our planet, this is generated:
Because the poles are flattened due to the earth turning around the sun
Due to the inclination of the earth and its circular shape, where the center is closer to the sun
Due to the wild plants and animals of these particular areas
By the cold that descends and ascends from the poles that gradually melt
To place ourselves temporarily and geographically on the planet, we create the imaginary lines some vertical and others horizontal, these lines are called:
Cartographic and time lines
Equipment and quadrilaterals
Parallels and meridians
Lifelines and vertex lines
The central line that goes from east to west is called the Ecuador line and divides the world into two hemispheres, north and south, one of the main phenomena that occurs in the territories that are on this line is
There are no tides
There are no migratory animals
There are no seasons
There is no electromagnetic layer
Greenwich is the main meridian, named after the Greenwich district of London where is the first large astronomical observatory in Europe, based on this line our planet is divided into:
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Right and left side
Northern and southern areas
Opposite pole and reverse pole
Colombia belongs to the American continent if we have to present where is located we can say:
At north latitude with south longitude
At north latitude with east longitude
At south latitude with west longitude
At western latitude with northern longitude
The places that are on the edge or border of a country are known as extreme points, in the case of Colombia some is:
La Guajira, Vichada, Amazonas and Nariño
Pta. Gallinas, Cabo Manglares, La Piedra del Cocuy, and San Antonio
Amazonas Jungle, Peru, Caribbean Sea, and Panama City
Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Equator
What is a Septentrional Latitude?
That is Located in the Western hemisphere
That is located in the Easter hemisphere
That is located in the Southers hemisphere
That is located in the North hemisphere
