The Five Themes of Geography
Physical Geography
Hemispheres, Continents and Oceans
New York State Geography
Geology
100
People, ideas, and goods/services traveling from one place to another would best fit under which of the five themes?
a) Movement
b) Regions
c) Human environment interaction
d) Location
a) movement
100
U-shaped valleys have been carved out by:
a) Glaciers
b) earthquakes
c) Mountains
d) volcanoes
a) glaciers
100
If you traveled north of the equator, you'd be in which hemisphere:
a) northern hemisphere
b) southern hemisphere
c) eastern hemisphere
d) western hemisphere
a) northern hemisphere
100
List the 5 boroughs of New York City
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island
100
The idea that the earth's crust is broken into moving plates is called:
a) Landforms
b) Erosion
c) Movement
d) Plate Tectonics
d) plate tectonics
200
This image best shows what type of region?
a) Formal region
b) Functional region
c) Perceptual region
a) formal region
200
B
200
Name this continent:
I am the third largest continent.
My continent experiences every type of climate that exists on Earth.
I am home to the country of Mexico.
North America
200
Which landform is not located in NYS?
a) mountains
b) plateaus
c) volcanoes
d) peninsulas
c) volcanoes
200
What is the name of the center of the earth?
a) Core
b) Mantle
c) fault
d) lava
a) core
300
A group of places with at least one thing in common form a:
a) Location
b) relative location
c) Government
d) Region
d) region
300
What is the name of this landform?
a) mountain
b) hill
c) plateau
d) valley
c) plateau
300
Name that continent:
I am the smallest continent but I have one of the largest countries on Earth.
My seasons are reversed! (Summer is cold and Winter is hot)
On my continent you can find marsupials (kangaroos, Wallabies, Koalas)
Australia and Oceania
300
Explain how the hills in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were made:
The hills in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are made from the glaciers pushing and bunching the surface of the earth. The glaciers deposited dirt, rocks and boulders onto the land and made hills.
300
What might concern you most if you lived near the boundary of two tectonic plates?
a) Tropical storms
b) Tornadoes
c) Earthquakes
d) Tsunamis
c) Earthquakes
400
The image below best shows what type of region?
a) Functional region
b) Formal region
c) Perceptual Region
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c) perceptual region
400
Oceanic islands have been created by:
a) Earthquakes
b) Volcanoes
c) Erosion
d) Geology
b) volcanoes
400
Name this ocean: #12
Southern Ocean
400
Explain how the Mohawk and Hudson River Valley were created:
The moving glaciers weren’t tall enough to cover the mountain range, so they pushed around the mountain range and made a pathway, separating the Appalachian Plateau from the Adirondack Mountains. This pathway is now called the Mohawk River Valley. The glacier continued its pathway south, creating the Hudson River Valley
400
What are the three main causes of erosion?
a) fire, air, and movement
b) water, wind, and ice
c) volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornadoes
d) rocks, soil, and sand
b) water, wind, and ice
500
A pilot flying for the first time to an airport on a Pacific island would most likely want to know the island's:
a) Human-environmental impact
b) absolute location
c) relative location
d) place
b) absolute location
500
What is this landform called?
a) peninsula
b) island
c) archipelago
a) peninsula
500
Name this ocean: #8
Arctic Ocean
500
Explain how the Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) were created:
The glaciers carved deep crevices in western New York, which became the Great Lakes. As the ice sheets melted and retreated into Canada, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie were created.
500
Why was fossil evidence significant to prove continental drift?
Dinosaur bones of the same species of dinosaur has been found on continents that are far away from each other, proving that at one point they were connected.