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Gr 7 Unit 1 Review
Gr 7 Unit 1 Review
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What are the 4 major Earth systems?
sphere 1-4
lithosphere, peoplesphere, wetsphere. outersphere
lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere
don't know
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What part of the world do natural disasters cause the most deaths?
North America
Asia
Africa
Europe
3
These natural disasters inflict the most economic damage.
earthquakes
floods
storms
tornados
4
Maps that are distorted based on data are called . . .
cartographer maps
distortion maps
cartogram maps
data maps
5
How many tectonic plates are there?
no one really knows
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7 major ones and 5 smaller ones
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Which sphere deal with water?
watersphere
biosphere
hydosphere
atmosphere
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_____ is a Japanese word meaning "harbor wave".
hashi
tsunami
typhoon
tokugawa
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A _____ is a spinning storm. It carries strong winds across land.
tsunami
hurrican
typhoon
tornado
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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused a lot of damage and deaths in New Orleans because . . .
it was so powerful and strong
people didn't leave when they were told to evacuate
New Orleans was below sea level and flooded easily
it kept circling back causing more and more damage
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What type of map is this?
splatter map
data dotted map
dot density map
choropleth map
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Are these lines of latitude or longitude?
both
don't know
longitude
latitude
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Convection currents happen because ...
molecules change the way they move - heating (go down) and cooling (go up)
no one knows why, it's a mystery!
the moon pulls the molecules in different directions, causing disasters
molecules change the way they move - heating (go up) and cooling (go down)
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How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
plaece
HEI
movement
region
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Describing a place based on the culture, buildings and people is an example of . . .
absolute location
place - human characteristics
place - physical characteristics
formal region
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Natural disasters cause the most economic damage in what part of the world?
Africa
North and South America
Europe
Asia
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What is the name of this map projection?
Mercator
Smithsonian
Gall Peters
Robinson
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What is this region also known as?
ring of destruction
circle of deth
ring of fire
volcano alley
18
The largest tsunami on record happened in Alaska in 1958. What caused it to happen?
meteor strike
an earthquake
a rock slide or 40 million cubic yards of rock
Godzilla doing a cannonball
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Are these lines of latitude or longitude?
longitude
latitude
both
don't know
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What factors could mitigate the impact of natural disasters?
all of the above
warning systems
preparedness
evacuation plans
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What are the layers of the earth?
top, middle and bottom
crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core
crust, core, mantle, ground, hot part
inner and outer parts
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Tornados happen when . . .
dry, cool air meets cool, dry air
you spin around really fast
warm, moist air meets warm moist air
warm, moist air meets cool, dry air
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What is the name of this map projection?
Mercator
Gall Peters
Robinson
Smithsonian
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Hurricanes become a category 5 when the winds exceed . . .
130 miles per hour
100 miles per hour
80 miles per hour
150 miles per hour
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Earthquakes are measured using what scale?
Dieter scale
Richter scale
Giger-Flinch scale
Starzynski scale
