1. World Regions Chapter 1 Test

2. Landforms Bodies of Water Climate Natural Resources Grab Bag 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question 1 - 10 Natural features on the Earth’s surface are called…

4. Answer 1 – 10 Landforms

5. Question 1 - 20 This says that the Earth is made up of many large, slow moving slabs…

6. Answer 1 – 20 Plate Tectonics

7. 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 ….

8. Answer 1 – 30 Magma

9. Question 1 - 40 The name given to the supercontinent that our continents were once a part of…

10. Answer 1 – 40 Pangaea

11. Question 1 - 50 Scientists believed this caused Pangaea to break apart…

12. Answer 1 – 50 Continental Drift

13. Question 2 - 10 A river and all of its tributaries make up a what?

14. Answer 2 – 10 River System

15. Question 2 - 20 Land drained by a river system is called?

16. Answer 2 – 20 Drainage Basin

17. Question 2 - 30 Some seas are really lakes, why do we call them seas instead of lakes?

18. Answer 2 – 30 Lakes are fresh water and seas are salt water

19. Question 2 - 40 The deepest ocean valleys are called?

20. Answer 2 – 40 Trenches

21. Question 2 - 50 The Earth’s water cycle continuously replaces the Earth’s water supply through these cycles?

22. Answer 2 – 50 Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation

23. Question 3 - 10 The different kinds of weather at a particular place over a long period of time is called?

24. Answer 3 – 10 Climate

25. Question 3 - 20 Climate is broken into three major zones based on where they fall on the lines of latitude, the zones are…

26. Answer 3 – 20 Polar, Tropic, Temperate

27. Question 3 - 30 During the day cooler air blows inland and pushes the warm air up, this is called?

28. Answer 3 – 30 Sea breeze

29. Question 3 - 40 An area’s elevation above sea level alos affects the climate, this is called?

30. Answer 3 – 40 Altitude

31. Question 3 - 50 Why is the climate at the equator very warm/hot?

32. Answer 3 – 50 The rays of the Sun hit this area more directly than in the other climate zones

33. Question 4 - 10 This is s resource that is or once was alive/living?

34. Answer 4 – 10 Biological Resource

35. Question 4 - 20 After many millions of years of prehistoric animals and plants being compressed by the earth, this nonrenewable resource is created…

36. Answer 4 – 20 Fossil Fuel

37. Question 4 - 30 To keep resources from being lost or wasted is called…

38. Answer 4 – 30 conservation

39. Question 4 - 40 This process was designed to recover and reuse materials instead of throwing them away…

40. Answer 4 – 40 Recycling

41. Question 4 - 50 Explain what nonrenewable and renewable resources are and give an example of each…

42. 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

43. Question 5 - 10 How many continents are on the Earth?

44. Answer 5 – 10 7

45. Question 5 - 20 Even renewable resources that are overused can become …

46. Answer 5 – 20 Scarce

47. Question 5 - 30 This type of volcano has been erupting or erupted ever since people have been keeping track of them…

48. Answer 5 – 30 Active Volcanoes

49. Question 5 - 40 The Grand Canyon was created through the processes of …

50. Answer 5 – 40 Weathering, Erosion and Deposition

51. Question 5 - 50 The climate between these two lines of latitude is tropical, name them.

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