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WorksheetsUnit 1 Test: The World
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 6hrs 15mins
The study of Earth, its people, places, and environments.
(a)
What is the chief disadvantage of maps?
Maps show less information than globes
Maps are flat and are not round like globes
Maps distort physical reality, or show it incorrectly
Maps show a part of the whole planet
Latitude
Run east and west, measures distance north and south of Equator.
Longitude
Run north and south, measures distance east and west of Prime Meridian.
0° latitude
Equator
0° longitude
Prime Meridian
meridians
another name for lines of longitude
What are the coordinates of the red dot?
(a)
What are these types of graphs?
(a)
Draw a compass rose.
What are the three basic questions of economies?
What are the coordinates of the red dot?
(a)
Describe absolute and relative location. Give two examples of each.
A large flat land area with very few trees.
Lake
Valley
Cave
Plains
a measure of how well people live, based on their wealth and how much "stuff" people have
standard of living
quality of life
income inequality
Economic system where some parts are privately owned and some are controlled by the government.
Traditional
Market
Command
Mixed
Places that are close together and share characteristics
Place
Location
Human Environment Interaction
Region
Name for the unique locations on Earth that defined by both human and physical characteristics.
Places
Environments
Vistas
Landscapes
Give two positive examples and two negative examples of human environment interaction.
What are push and pull factors? Give two examples of each.
What map feature tells you the ratio between size in real life and size in the map?
Scale
Title
Legend
Compass
What population is displayed on the LEFT side of this pyramid?
Children
Women
Men
Elderly
(a) is made up of several different elements including, behavior, customs, and religion.
Why do geographers study specific regions?
To describe the physical beauty and complexity of places
To understand the most general physical features of places
To identify the broad patterns of larger areas
To analyze the location and size of things
What is a resource?
Food
Something that gives people elecricity
Anything that is useful to people
Water
What theme of geography deals with how people, products, ideas and information move from one place to another.
(a)
Which economic indicator measures the total value of all the productivity in a country in one year?
CPI
GDP
Inflation
Unemployment
Why do geographers study more than a places location and dimensions?
Monarchy
Government where leaders typically inherit their power because their parents were rulers too.
Theocracy
Operates under the divine rule.
Dictatorship
Leaders have absolute control and use force. No elections.
Democracy
Governments that conduct free and fair elections and allow their citizens to vote.
Oligarchy
The ruling class controls laws and policies, "rule by the few."
