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World Regions
Chapter 1 Test
Landforms Bodies of Water Climate Natural
Resources Grab Bag
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Question 1 - 10
Natural features on the Earth’s surface are called…
Answer 1 – 10
Landforms
Question 1 - 20
This says that the Earth is made up of many large, slow moving slabs…
Answer 1 – 20
Plate Tectonics
Question 1 - 30
Sometimes when two of Earth’s plates push against each other, the edge of one plate slides beneath the other. The bottom plate melts and turns into ….
Answer 1 – 30
Magma
Question 1 - 40
The name given to the supercontinent that our continents were once a part of…
Answer 1 – 40
Pangaea
Question 1 - 50
Scientists believed this caused Pangaea to break apart…
Answer 1 – 50
Continental Drift
Question 2 - 10
A river and all of its tributaries make up a what?
Answer 2 – 10
River System
Question 2 - 20
Land drained by a river system is called?
Answer 2 – 20
Drainage Basin
Question 2 - 30
Some seas are really lakes, why do we call them seas instead of lakes?
Answer 2 – 30
Lakes are fresh water and seas are salt water
Question 2 - 40
The deepest ocean valleys are called?
Answer 2 – 40
Trenches
Question 2 - 50
The Earth’s water cycle continuously replaces the Earth’s water supply through these cycles?
Answer 2 – 50
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
Question 3 - 10
The different kinds of weather at a particular place over a long period of time is called?
Answer 3 – 10
Climate
Question 3 - 20
Climate is broken into three major zones based on where they fall on the lines of latitude, the zones are…
Answer 3 – 20
Polar, Tropic, Temperate
Question 3 - 30
During the day cooler air blows inland and pushes the warm air up, this is called?
Answer 3 – 30
Sea breeze
Question 3 - 40
An area’s elevation above sea level alos affects the climate, this is called?
Answer 3 – 40
Altitude
Question 3 - 50
Why is the climate at the equator very warm/hot?
Answer 3 – 50
The rays of the Sun hit this area more directly than in the other climate zones
Question 4 - 10
This is s resource that is or once was alive/living?
Answer 4 – 10
Biological Resource
Question 4 - 20
After many millions of years of prehistoric animals and plants being compressed by the earth, this nonrenewable resource is created…
Answer 4 – 20
Fossil Fuel
Question 4 - 30
To keep resources from being lost or wasted is called…
Answer 4 – 30
conservation
Question 4 - 40
This process was designed to recover and reuse materials instead of throwing them away…
Answer 4 – 40
Recycling
Question 4 - 50
Explain what nonrenewable and renewable resources are and give an example of each…
Answer 4 – 50
Renewable – can be made again by nature or by people,
water
Nonrenewable – cannot be replaced or takes too long to
replace, coal
Question 5 - 10
How many continents are on the Earth?
Answer 5 – 10
7
Question 5 - 20
Even renewable resources that are overused can become …
Answer 5 – 20
Scarce
Question 5 - 30
This type of volcano has been erupting or erupted ever since people have been keeping track of them…
Answer 5 – 30
Active Volcanoes
Question 5 - 40
The Grand Canyon was created through the processes of …
Answer 5 – 40
Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
Question 5 - 50
The climate between these two lines of latitude is tropical, name them.
Answer 5 – 50
Tropic of Cancer and the
Tropic of Capricorn