Social Studies Unit 1

Question 1

What place on the map is the farthest south?

Accepted Answer

Everglades

Question 2

John lives down the road, near a river, south of town, and two miles from school. What word is a cardinal direction?

Accepted Answer

south

Question 3

What direction to do travel: from Statue of Liberty to Mount Rushmore?

Accepted Answer

West

Question 4

How many states are in the United States?

Accepted Answer

50

Question 5

What direction to do travel: from Golden Gate to Grand Canyon?

Accepted Answer

Southeast

Question 6

North, east, south, and west are all examples of...

Accepted Answer

cardinal directions

Question 7

A -- helps you find out distances on a map.

Accepted Answer

scale

Question 8

The United States is made up of many different...

Accepted Answer

states

Question 9

You can eat many kinds of fresh fish and go to the zoo to see animals from the world. A natural resource is...

Accepted Answer

many kinds of fish

Question 10

A -- is the city where the government of a country or state meets.

Accepted Answer

capital

Question 11

Which of these is completely in the Southern Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 12

You never need a raincoat and you can swim at the beach all year. The climate is...

Accepted Answer

mild all year

Question 13

What direction to do travel: from Everglades to Statue of Liberty?

Accepted Answer

North

Question 14

You can eat fresh fish from the Pacific Ocean and go hiking through the hills here! The physical features are...

Accepted Answer

ocean and hills

Question 15

The five largest bodies of water on Earth are called...

Accepted Answer

oceans

Question 16

You can find out what symbols on a map stand for in the...

Accepted Answer

map key

Question 17

The --- is an imaginary line that divides the world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Accepted Answer

equator

Question 18

The study of Earth's land, water, air, and people is called...

Accepted Answer

geography

Question 19

The United States is an example of a...

Accepted Answer

country

Question 20

Antarctica and Australia are...

Accepted Answer

continents

Questions 20