World Regions Chapter 1 Test

Landforms Bodies of Water Climate Natural Resources Grab Bag

Question Natural features on the Earth’s surface are called…

Answer 1 – 10 Landforms

Question This says that the Earth is made up of many large, slow moving slabs…

Answer 1 – 20 Plate Tectonics

Question 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 The name given to the supercontinent that our continents were once a part of…

Answer 1 – 40 Pangaea

Question Scientists believed this caused Pangaea to break apart…

Answer 1 – 50 Continental Drift

Question A river and all of its tributaries make up a what?

Answer 2 – 10 River System

Question Land drained by a river system is called?

Answer 2 – 20 Drainage Basin

Question 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 The deepest ocean valleys are called?

Answer 2 – 40 Trenches

Question The Earth’s water cycle continuously replaces the Earth’s water supply through these cycles?

Answer 2 – 50 Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation

Question The different kinds of weather at a particular place over a long period of time is called?

Answer 3 – 10 Climate

Question 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 During the day cooler air blows inland and pushes the warm air up, this is called?

Answer 3 – 30 Sea breeze

Question An area’s elevation above sea level alos affects the climate, this is called?

Answer 3 – 40 Altitude

Question 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 This is s resource that is or once was alive/living?

Answer 4 – 10 Biological Resource

Question 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 To keep resources from being lost or wasted is called…

Answer 4 – 30 conservation

Question This process was designed to recover and reuse materials instead of throwing them away…

Answer 4 – 40 Recycling

Question 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 How many continents are on the Earth?

Answer 5 – 10 7

Question Even renewable resources that are overused can become …

Answer 5 – 20 Scarce

Question This type of volcano has been erupting or erupted ever since people have been keeping track of them…

Answer 5 – 30 Active Volcanoes

Question The Grand Canyon was created through the processes of …

Answer 5 – 40 Weathering, Erosion and Deposition

Question The climate between these two lines of latitude is tropical, name them.

Answer 5 – 50 Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn