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Week 1: Planet Earth: World History Studies Weekly

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is the longest river on planet Earth?

a)

Amazon

b)

Mississippi

c)

Seine

d)

Nile

2.

Use the diagram to answer this question:

What could best be added to the web above of facts about the First New Map of the World?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Martin Waldseemuller

d)

Christopher Columbus

3.

Use the map to answer this question. Which ocean is the largest and deepest on planet Earth?

a)

Pacific

b)

Atlantic

c)

Indian

d)

Arctic

4.

Use the map to answer this question. What is the 0-degree line of longitude called?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Western Hemisphere

c)

Equator

d)

International Date Line

5.

What is a book of maps called?

a)

An encyclopedia

b)

An almanac

c)

An atlas

d)

A thesaurus

6.

Which ancient civilization has a myth involving a giant named Atlas who was forced to hold the sky on his shoulders?

a)

Sumerians

b)

Egyptians

c)

Greeks

d)

Romans

7.

What is a narrow section of water called that connects two larger bodies of water?

a)

a peninsula

b)

a strait

c)

an estuary

d)

an isthmus

8.

Who first proposed the theory of Continental Drift, stating that the Earth's land masses were once a supercontinent, which he named Pangaea?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Martin Waldseemuller

d)

Christopher Columbus

9.

The Continental Drift theory is largely based on ______________.

a)

the use of new instruments

b)

photographs

c)

plate tectonics

d)

fossil records

10.

Approximately, how many people live on planet Earth?

a)

7 million

b)

7 billion

c)

70 million

d)

70 billion