WorksheetsMid-Year Quiz
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which government is run by a religious leader/leaders?
Democracy
Dictatorship
Theocracy
Monarchy
Which government gives the people the power?
Theocracy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Democracy
Which type of government has a king and/or queen as its' leader?
Monarchy
Democracy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Which type of government does one person have complete control and usually gets it by using extreme force?
Democracy
Dictatorship
Theocracy
Monarchy
Identify the continent that is purple
North America
Asia
Africa
South America
Identify the continent that is green
South America
Europe
Africa
Australia
Identify the continent that is purple
North America
Asia
Africa
South America
Identify the continent that is green
South America
Europe
Africa
Australia
Identify the continent that is white
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
Africa
Identify the continent that is yellow
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Identify the continent that is pink
North America
South America
Australia
Africa
Identify the continent that is orange
Africa
South America
Europe
Asia
Identify the continent that is dark red
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
North America
How many continents are there?
4
5
7
8
What continent do we live on?
Africa
Europe
South America
North America
What continent is really really freezing cold?
Australia
Antarctica
Europe
Asia
30* 20" North Latitude and 81* 40' West Longitude is an expression of
absolute location
compass rose
elevation
relative location
A compass is a tool that is used to describe one component of motion. Which component of motion does a compass describe?
Direction
Distance
Time
Speed
Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator.
Latitude
Longitude
Equator
Projection
Imaginary lines that circle the Earth from Pole to Pole, measuring distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
Latitude
Longitude
Scale
Hemisphere
Which of these tells you this distance north or south of the Equator?
Latitude
Longitude
International Dateline
Meridians
A "half sphere," used to refer to one-half of the globe when divided into North, South, East, and West.
Scale
Latitude
Longitude
Hemisphere
What is the object shown in the image?
compass rose
legend
map title
scale
What element is missing from this map?
scale
title
legend
compass rose
Using the compass rose, what direction would you travel from Raleigh to Charleston
Northwest
Southwest
Southeast
Northeast
Which continent is marked by the number "1"?
Asia
South America
Africa
Europe
These two drawings of a globe show lines of longitude, or meridians, and lines of latitude, or parallels. Which kind of lines meet at the poles?
both latitude and longitude
neither latitude nor longitude
latitude
longitude
The study of people, their cultures, their distribution across Earth's surface.
human geography
physical geography
climate
deforestation
The study of Earth's surface features
human geography
physical geography
renewable resources
climate
adjusting the way we live in or around landforms to meet our needs
human adaptation
non-renewable resource
technological innovation
human geograpy
humans change the environment around them to meet their needs
climate
technological innovation
physical geography
human modification
clearing forests to use the area for other purposes
climate
physical geography
non-renewable resource
deforestation
refers to a natural resource that cannot be remade or replenished
renewable resource
non-renewable resource
refers to a natural resource that can be replenished naturally.
non- renewable resource
renewable resource
new and creative ways of using existing tools
physical geography
climate
climate region
technological innovation
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period
climate
renewable resource
human modification
describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. NASA scientists have observed Earth's surface is warming, and many of the warmest years on record have happened in the past 20 years
sustainable development
technological innovation
climate change
