World History final

Question 1

What does the title tell you?

Answer 1

Tells what the map is about

Question 2

What does the key tell you?

Answer 2

Tells what the symbols on a map mean

Question 3

What does the scale tell you?

Answer 3

Tells the distance on a map

Question 4

What does the compass rose tell you?

Answer 4

Tells the directions on a map

Question 5

What is the main purpose of a political map?

Answer 5

Political maps show man made things like countries, states, cities, roads, and canals

Question 6

What is the main purpose of a physical map?

Answer 6

Physical maps show mostly natural things like oceans, rivers, mountains, plains, and elevation

Question 7

How is a special purpose map different from political or physical maps?

Answer 7

Special purpose maps focus on just one main thing

Question 8

Define hemisphere

Answer 8

Half of the earth

Question 9

Name two regions that Illinois belongs to

Answer 9

English-speaking region , corn growing region, Christian religious region, Midwest, Great Lakes region

Question 10

What major line of latitude runs north and south?

Answer 10

Prime Meridian

Question 11

What major line of longitude runs east and west?

Answer 11

Equator

Question 12

What is the name of the giant supercontinent from 100 million years ago?

Answer 12

Pangea

Question 13

What is the name given to the volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 13

The Ring of Fire

Question 14

What is the name of the theory that states that all of the Earth’s crust sits on moving plates?

Answer 14

Continental drift

Question 15

What percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water?

Answer 15

70%

Question 16

What is groundwater?

Answer 16

Groundwater is fresh water that lies beneath the earth’s surface and supplies wells and springs

Question 17

Rock is constantly being worn down and built back up. What are three things that cause the weathering of rock?

Answer 17

Weathering is the process that breaks down rocks. It can be caused by water, wind, ice, chemical reactions, tree roots, and other forces

Question 18

What formed the Great Lakes and when did it occur?

Answer 18

Glaciers carved out the Great Lakes during the last Ice Age and left fresh water behind

Question 19

What are sheet glaciers? What two locations on earth do you find the largest one?

Answer 19

Sheet glaciers are sheets of ice that cover large areas. Greenland and Antarctica are covered by sheet glaciers also called ice caps

Question 20

What are mountain glaciers? When mountain glaciers cause erosion what do they form?

Answer 20

Mountain glaciers form when fallen snow in mountains builds up and turns into ice. They form U-shaped valleys from grinding out the area between hills or mountains

Question 21

If the earth’s move apart, what material comes through the opening?

Answer 21

Magma comes out of the opening. Once it comes out, We call it lava

Question 22

What is the name of the movement of plates as pressure builds and then there is a sudden release of this energy?

Answer 22

An earthquake

Question 23

When cities started to develop, where did they usually develop?

Answer 23

Large cities usually started as settlements along lakes and rivers where people would have a constant supply of water