Geography - 1st Nine Weeks Assessment (study guide)

	1.	Trees and plants are forms of vegetation.  

	2.	The angle of the sun’s rays causes the seasons. 

	3.	The area that surrounds the earth’s core is called the mantle. 

	4.	Water held in the atmosphere in the form of gas is called water vapor. 

	5.	The earth’s crust includes ocean floors and continents. 

	6.	What term means the constant movement of the earth’s water from oceans to air to land and back to oceans?
												The Water Cycle
	7.	Dangerous rays from the sun are screened out on the earth by the atmosphere.  

	8.	Magma can be seen in an active volcano. 

	9.	Water, wind, and ice move weathered material through a process called erosion. 

	10.	List the eight traits geographers look at when studying a culture. social groups, language, religion, daily life, history, arts, government, the economy.

	11.	The earth’s 1,000-mile (1,609-km)-thick cushion of gases is called the atmosphere. 

	12.	A funnel-shaped windstorm that forms over land is called a tornado. 

	13.	Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of fossil fuels. 

	14.	List examples of nonrenewable resources. nuclear energy and fossil fuels.

	15.	Language, religion, customs, and beliefs are part of a culture. 

	16.	Most of earth’s freshwater is found in glaciers &  ice caps. 

	17.	Weathering is a process that breaks surface rocks into boulders, gravel, sand & soil.

	18.	Large masses of water in frozen form are called glaciers & ice sheets.

	19.	Most of the earth’s salt water is found in oceans. 

	20.	Plains and mountains are examples of landforms. 

	21.	The local form of a language that differs from the main language is a dialect. 

	22.	Trees, fertile soil, and clean water are examples of natural resources.

	23.	List the major world religions? Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism 

	24.	Subarctic climate, tundra climate, and ice cap climate are in what major climate region? High latitude

	25.	Voting is a form of civic participation. 

	26.	The world’s largest rain forest area is found in the Amazon Basin.

	27.	About 70 percent of the earth’s surface is water.

	28.	Off each coast of a continent lies a plateau called a continental shelf.

	29.	In a democracy, people choose their leaders by voting.

30.	What is the largest and deepest ocean? The Pacific

•	Study Charts and Maps on pp. 31 & 49
•	Be familiar with Continents and Oceans!