1. 6th Grade Social Studies
First Semester Final Exam
Study Guide Review

2. World Map Europe Asia North America Atlantic Ocean Africa
South America
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Antarctica

3. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the earth in half horizontally, creating the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
Equator

4. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the earth in half vertically, creating the Western and Eastern hemispheres?
Prime Meridian

5. What are cardinal directions?
North, South, East & West

6. Exactly where it is ( its latitude and longitude)
What is a place’s absolute location?
Exactly where it is ( its latitude and longitude)

7. What is relative location?
Where a place is located relative to something else (Sue’s house is west of the school)

8. It gets warmer (the temperature rises)
What happens to the temperature the closer a place is located to the equator?
It gets warmer (the temperature rises)

9. Man-made features such as cities, nations, borders, etc.
What features does a political map show?
Man-made features such as cities, nations, borders, etc.

10. Natural (not man made) features such as rivers and mountains
What features does a physical map show?
Natural (not man made) features such as rivers and mountains

11. What is the average temperature and rainfall of a place over the course of a year is called?
Climate

12. What does the Enduring Understanding Location mean?
Location is where a place is located, it affects a society’s economy, culture and development.

13. What does the Enduring Understanding Human-environment interaction mean?
The student will understand that humans, their society, and the environment affect each other.

14. What does the Enduring Understanding Conflict and Change mean?
When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result

15. Northern, Western, & Eastern
In what hemisphere(s) is Europe located?
Northern, Western, & Eastern

16. What type of climate, caused by the temperatures carried in from the Mediterranean Sea, do the southern and south western portions of Europe have?
Mediterranean

17. In part of the European continent is most of the farming done?
European Plain

18. Which mountain range divides Europe from Asia?
Ural Mountains

19. Which European country is also divided by this same mountain range?
Russia

20. Europe Map Urals European Plain United Kingdom Russia English Channel
Poland
Pyrenees
Ukraine
Alps
France
Spain
Italy
Mediterranean Sea

21. What is the primary religion found throughout Europe?
Christianity

22. What is the name of the holy book used by people of the Jewish faith?
Torah

23. Which religion calls God by the name of Allah?
Islam

24. The synagogue is the house of worship for which religion?
Judaism

25. The People (the citizens)
In a democratic type of government, who controls the government’s power?
The People (the citizens)

26. Oligarchic: Aristocracy
Which type of government is run by a small group of people who have this control due to wealth and/or land ownership?
Oligarchic: Aristocracy

27. What is Russia’s legislature called?
Duma

28. Who is the head of the executive branch, chosen by their parliament, in the United Kingdom?
Prime Minister
Prime Minister Gordon Brown

29. He was removed from power & they were all eventually killed
What happened to Czar Nicholas II and his family as a result of the extreme unhappiness of the Russian people?
He was removed from power & they were all eventually killed

30. How did the change in the Russian government impact WWI?
Russia dropped out of the war, which caused a shift in which side was winning

31. What was the Chernobyl disaster?
A horrible nuclear disaster explosion that happened in the Ukraine when it was a part of the Soviet Union