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Geography Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name

Class

Date

What is your name?

4 lines

Geography is the __________ . (p. 2)

study of plants and animals

study of planets and stars

study of the earth and the people who live on it

study of life, the universe and everything

The 0 degree line of latitude is called? (p. 4)

Prime Meridian

International Date Line

Longitude

Equator

Looking at the map on pages 4 and 5, if it is 12:00 o'clock (noon) in Oklahoma (Central Time Zone), what time is it in California (Pacific Time Zone). (p. 4 and 5)

10:00 AM

12:00 PM (noon)

1:00 PM

12:00 AM (midnight)

Which of the following map projections (type of map) was developed in the 1500's for the purpose of navigating the oceans. (p. 6)

Plane Projections

Mercator Projection

Robinson Projection

A Globe

Migration normally takes place as the result of either a push or a pull factor. Which of the following is a push factor. (p. 8)

for a chance to participate in a dream job.

to take advantage of better educational opportunities.

because your community and home were destroyed because of war.

there's an opportunity to get rich quick

True or False: A severe famine (food shortage) in your country would be an example of a pull factor. (p. 8)

True

False

Terracing is an example of __________ . (p 13)

people changing the way they live in mountainous areas

people changing the environment to make it easier to farm

people bring fertile soil from the valleys to mountainous areas

people changing their farming to the natural landforms in their area

Which of the following are reasons Hoover Dam was built? (p. 14) Check all that applies.

flood control

provide fire protection

provided water for people

provide electrical power

provide water transportation

10.

How are weathering and erosion different? (p. 17)

Wind causes erosion and water causes weathering.

Weathering is the wearing away of rock and erosion is the movement of particles of rock.

Erosion is the building up of rock and weathering is the movement of those rocks.

Weathering is what took place when Mount Saint Helens blew up and erosion is what formed the grand canyon.

11.

Match the Vocabulary words to their defections.

Word Bank: Geography, Faults, magnitude, migrate, weathering.

written study of the Earth and everything on it

Geography

a crack in the earth's crust

Faults

to move from one country to another

migrate

greatness in size

magnitude

the wearing a way of rock

weathering

12.

Match the Vocabulary words to their defections.

Word Bank: immigrant, fracking, time zone, longitude, grade.

people who move from one country to another

immigrant

when wastewater is injected into the ground at high pressure

fracking

a region where the same standard of time is used

time zone

lines that run the length of the Earth

longitude

the degree of inclination of a road or hill

grade

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Geography Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 8mins

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