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Unit 1 - The Geographer's World 6th Grade
Unit 1 - The Geographer's World 6th Grade
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Letter E is
Coast
Bay
Plain
Strait
2
What does the relative location of a place tell you?
My house on my street.
Where something is related to another place.
The exact place on a map.
Latitude and Longitude lines.
3
Geographers call an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas...
a region
a landform
a city
a climate zone
4
The Prime Meridian runs from where to where?
Alaska to Australia
Equator to Prime Meridian
North Pole to South Pole
Africa to Asia
5
Letter J is
Coast
Island
Reef
Bay
6
A
thematic map
shows physical features like rivers and mountains
False
True
7
The pattern of weather over a long period of time is
vegetation
density
region
climate
8
What is a legend (map key)?
What the symbols on a map mean.
Cardinal Directions
Distances on a map.
What a map is about.
9
Letter C is
Canyon
Reef
Bay
Tributary
10
Letter F is
Island
Plain
Strait
Tributary
11
What causes the changing Seasons?
Earth's tilt towards the moon
The ocean tides
Earth's orbit around the sun and Earth's tilt
the Moon's gravitational pull
12
What is the global grid
What a map is about.
Absolute Locations/Latitude and Longitude.
Symbols
Cardinal Directions
13
What are the seven continents?
Asia, United States, Antartica, Africa, South America, Europe, Australia
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, Europe, Australia
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Mediterranean, Acapulco, South China
China, Australia, North America, Ecuador, Greenland, England, Guinea
14
How many continents are there in the world?
5
8
6
7
15
What is the oldest form of government still in use today?
dictatorship
republic
democracy
monarchy
16
Letter D is
Canyon
Coast
Plain
Bay
17
The ___________ runs from north to south and splits the globe into East and West Hemispheres
Prime Meridian
Latitude
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
18
The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are...
Latitude lines that locate the southern tropics
a longitude lines that locates the northern tropics
two lines that mark the arctic and antarctic circles
the two lines that mark where the sun's rays alway beat straight down
19
Letter I is
Island
Coast
Canyon
Reef
20
The Arctic and Antarctic circles are parallel lines at the top and bottom of the globe.
False
True
21
Name the five oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic.
Pacific, Atlantic, Danum, Indian, and Arctic.
None of the above.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Dead sea, and Arctic
22
What is a Map Title?
Symbols
Distances on a map.
What a map is about.
Cardinal Directions
23
Letter G is
Reef
Island
Bay
Tributary
24
Letter H is
Volcano
Strait
Tributary
Island
25
Letter B is
Mountain Range
Volcano
Canyon
Tributary
26
A population density map is a...
political map
physical map
thematic map
regional map
27
A vegetation map shows
what grows in the world
what grows in different elevations and areas
none of these
what grows in a garden
28
A compass rose tells us...
What the map is about
Symbols
Cardinal Directions
Distances on a map
29
What is a map scale?
Cardinal Directions
Symbols
Gives absolute location.
Distances on a map.
30
Letter A is
Strait
Mountain Range
Volcano
Island
31
A physical features map shows landforms.
True
False
32
Which kind of economy is most common today?
market
command
traditional
mixed
33
Which two continents are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere.
North and South America
Europe and Asia
Asia and Africa
North America and Australia
